FALCONID^E HELOTAESUS 315 



[Natal] ; Layard, B. S. Afr.p. 18 (1867) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 140; 

 H&ugUn, Orn. Nordost Afr. p. 80, pi. 2 (1869) ; (i nrncij in Anderssori's 

 B. Damaraland, p. 10 (1872) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 300 (1874) ; 

 Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 360 [Matabeleland] ; Sliarpe, ed. Layard's 

 B. S.Afr. pp. 48, 798 (1875-84) ; Gunu-ij, Ibis, 1878, p. 353 ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1882, p. 238 [Tati river] ; Holub fr Pelzcln, Orn. Slid- Afr. 

 p. 27 (1882) ; Symondu, Ibis, 1887, p. 324 [Kroonstad] ; Bnjdcn, (inn 

 and Camera, p. 65 (1893) ; Fleck, Jo urn. Oniith. 1894, p. 393 ; 

 Millais, Breath from the Veldt, pp. 117, 317, sketches (1895) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. i, p. 148 (1896) ; Sowcrby, Ibis, 1898, p. 574 [Mashonaland] ; 

 Woodward Bros. Natal B. p. 148 (1899) ; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 258 

 [Mashonaland] ; Alexander, ibid. p. 436 [Zambesi valley] ; Wood- 

 ward Bros. ibid. p. 519 [Zululand] ; Reichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 598 

 (1901). 



" Berghaan" of the Colonists, a name often applied to other large birds 

 of prey. 



FIG. lQ4.Helotarsus ecaudatus. x |. 



Description. Adult female. Head, which is strongly crested, 

 cheeks, sides of the neck and the whole of the underparts rich 

 glossy black ; centre of the back, inner scapulars, upper and under 

 tail-coverts, and tail rich maroon-chestnut; shoulders and wing- 

 coverts except the greater series silvery-brown ; greater wing-coverts, 

 primary and secondary wing-quills and scapulars blue-black; the 

 secondaries are sometimes silvery and tipped with black perhaps in 

 not quite adult birds, perhaps in the female as suggested by Gurney, 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white. 



