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A Description of the Birds 



„ odorata, Th. E. 



,, ilicifolia, Linn. D. 



„ serrata, Th. F. 



„ strobilifera, Linn. D. 



,, graminea, Th. I- 

 Alchemilla, Linn. sp. 1 . 



„ capensis, Th. G. 

 Acharia, Thunb. sp. 1. 



„ tragioides, Th. A.H. 



Geum, Linn. sp. 1. 



„ capense, Thunb. G. 

 Rubus, Linn. sp. 2. Wilde 

 Braame. 



„ Mundtii, Schlechtetid, A. 



(b 



„ chrysocarpus, Schlechtend, 



H. 



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 jMiaeralogical Society of Jena, 



&c. •«■ 



[Continued from p. 241 .] 

 BuTEOLAGOPUS.* 



Falco Lagopus, Gmel. Syst. 1, p. 260, sp. 58. — Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. vol.1, p. 19. — Merey Tasschenb. Deut. vol. 1, p. 37. — 

 Falco Plumipes, Daud. Orn. — Falco Sclavonicus, Lath. Ind- 

 vol. 1, p. 26. sp. 54. — Buse Gantee, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afrique, 

 vol. I, pi- 10. 



B. fuscus ex albido vario rectricibus fuscis bast dimidia 

 apice que alb is ; cera pedibusque lutcis. 



Male.- — Head, upper part of neck, throat, breast, and thighs, 

 whitish yellow, variegated with large oblong brown streaks; 

 interscapulars, wing coverts, and back, brownish black, each 

 feather with a yellowish red edging ; a large transverse band 

 or blotch of deep brown on the posterior part of belly; rump 

 and under tail coverts whitish yellow. Tail white towards 

 base, elsewhere unifoim brown, with all the feathers termi- 

 nated by dirty white ; legs feathered as far as the toes ; the 

 latter and eyes brown; cere yellow; bill black. The male 

 .measures nineteen inches^ and the female two feet three 

 inches. 



The/ewia/ehas less white upon the head, the neck, and the 



{>) The fruits of Rubus Muniltii are black, of Rubus chrysocarpus yellow 

 and both eaten. 



* In consequence of an error in the printing- department, the name and 

 synonyme* of this bird were made to finish that portion of the communica- 

 tion, descriptive of the Birds inhabiting the South of Africa, which appeared 

 in our last number, even without having- undergone the common typogra- 

 phical corrections. 



