inhabiting the South of Africa. 119 



rayed transversely brown and white ; tail slightly rounded 

 with a broad band of tawny white, and each feather tipt with 

 white ; tarsi and toes yellowish ; claws black. Length one 

 foot eight or one foot ten inches." 



Female. " The spots are less distinct, and more of a tawny 

 tinge ; the brown is less clear ; and the size exceeds that of 

 the male." 



Le Vaillant found this bird on the mountains of Great 

 Namaqualand, and I have myself seen several examples of it, 

 at least as far as I could judge, about the tops of the moun- 

 tains which occur towards the lower part of the Orange 

 River. It is very shy, and on that account, though I en- 

 deavoured by every means to procure a specimen, I was un- 

 successful. " It makes its nest in holes of the rocks, which 

 it constructs externally of sticks, and internally of leaves or 

 moss, and lays two or three eggs. Rock rabbits (Hyrax 

 capensis) form its principal food." As I have ne^er myself 

 had an opportunity of examining this bird, I have placed it in 

 the Genus Cymindis, in consequence of the remarks of Mr. 

 Vigors, one of the most enlightened Ornithologists of the 

 present dayf. 



Stirps. ACCIPITRINA. (HAWKS.) 



Rostrum breve a basi aduncum ; alee breves ; remex quarta 

 plerumque longissima. 



Beak short, hooked from the base ; wings short ; the fourth 

 quill generally longest. 



Genus. ACCIPITER. Auct. 



Rostrum breve ; nares sub- 

 ovales. Tarsi elongati glabrii 

 acrotarsia scutellata, suturd ; 

 vix decernenda. 



Beak short; nostrils somewhat 

 oval. Tarsi elongated, gla- 

 brous ; acrotarsia scutellated ; 

 sutures scarcely visible. 



Sparvius pars, Vieillot. lerax, Leach. Nisus, Cuvier. 

 ACCIPITER MUSICTJS. Blaauwe Valk of the Colonists. 



Falco musicus, Daud. Orn. p. 116. Shaw, vol. 7, p. 143. 

 Le Faucoii Chanteur, Le Vaillant, Ois d'Afriq.,p. 117, pi. 27. 



A. canus, abdomine cruribusque, albis, nigro lineatis ; remi- 

 gibus, primariis nigro fuscis, et secundariis albis nigro notatis ; 

 cauda rotundata ; plumis duabus mediis nigro-griseis reliquis, 

 nigro et albo variegatis ; ceroma et tarsis rubris. 



Male. Upper and lower mandibles at base orange colored, 

 elsewhere black ; cere vermillion red ; head, neck, and breast 



+ Zoological Journal, vol. 1, p. 324. 



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