SOUTH AFRICAN 



QUARTERLY JOURNAL. 



No. in. APRIL- JUNE, 1830. 





A Description of the Birds inhabiting the South of 

 Africa. By Andrew Smith, M.D. Member of the 

 Wernerian Natural History Society of Edinburgh; 

 Honorary Member of the Mineralogical Society of Jena, 

 &c. 



[Continued from p. 120.] 

 Accipiter Gabar. Klein Spervel of the Colonists. 



Falco Gabar, Shaw's Zoology, vol. 7, p. 202.— Red-legged 

 Falcon, Latham's General History of Birds, vol. 1, p. 212. — 

 Epervier Gabar, Daud. 2, p. 87. 



A. capite, dorso, gula pectoreque ccesiis, abdomine et femoribus 

 nigro et albo transverse fasciatis ; remiges nigro-brunnece, pogo- 

 niis internis nigro-brunneo et sordido albo fasciatis; cauda ni- 

 gro brunnea fasciis tribw subalbidis transversis notata, apices 

 plumarum albce. 



Bill dark horn colored ; cere deep red ; eyes light crimson ; 

 head, neck, interscapular, back, and shoulders dirty brownish 

 or reddish gray; chin, throat, sides of neck, and breast, light 

 bluish gray or pale slate color ; belly and thighs banded light- 

 ish black and clear white. Primary quill feathers nearly an 

 uniform dark brown on the outer vanes, whilst the inner ones 

 ar i marked by alternate bands of blackish brown and dirty 

 light white; secondaries nearly similarly colored, and all tipt 

 with wbite. Tail slightly rounded, feathers brownish black, 

 crossed by three transverse bands which appear, when viewed 

 above, of a pale dusky white or grayish white, and, when 

 seen below, of a pure white ; the tips of all pure white ; legs 

 and toes red ; claws horn coloured. Length from bill to base 

 of tail six inches ; length of latter six inches and a quarter. 



Female. — Length from bill to base of tail seven inches ; 

 length of latter seven and a half. The color of back, throat, 

 and breast less clear than in the male ; the black lines of the 

 belly rather broader, and the tarsi and toes of a duller yellow. 



Young. — Bill nearly as in mature specimens; cere and 



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