328 FALCONID^E ASTURINULA 



slightly tipped with white and obscurely cross-barred with brown, 

 white on the basal half of the inner webs ; tail slaty-black crossed 

 by a subterminal bar of white and with a second white bar on the 

 inner web of all but the two central feathers ;' sides of the neck and 

 chest like the back, chin and throat white with a central streak of 

 black ; under tail-coverts white, rest of the under surface narrowly 

 barred with white and dark grey. 



Iris lake to rich red; bill black, cere and gape rich orange to 

 cinnamon-red ; legs orange to red. 



Length 15-25; wing 9'0; tail 6-75; tarsus 2-15; culmen 1-1. 

 The male is a little smaller, wing 8 5 ; tail 5*40; tarsus 1/9. 



FIG. 110. Asturinula monogrammica. x |^. 



A young bird has a good deal of brown on the chest and brown 

 margins to many of the wing-coverts and scapulars; iris brown. 



Distribution. Throughout the Ethiopian region from Senegal 

 and Abyssinia southwards to the Transvaal and Natal. This 

 Buzzard Eagle is only found in the northern portion of our area 

 and does not become at all common until Mashonaland is reached. 

 It has not hitherto occurred in Cape Colony. The following are 

 recorded localities : Natal Clairmont near Durban and North Dene 

 near Duiban on May 24, 1897 (Durban Mus. and S. Afr. Mus.), 

 Pongola river in Zululand (Woodward) ; Transvaal Eustenburg in 

 January, June and August (Ayres), Buffels in Zoutspansberg (W. 

 Ayres) ; Ehodesia Salisbury (Marshall), Fort Chiquaqua (Sowerby); 

 German south-west Africa Elephants vlei (Andersson) ; Portuguese 

 east Africa Tete on the Zambesi (Alexander). 



Habits. Little attention has been paid to the habits of this bird. 



