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[FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 

 No. III., APRIL to JUNE 1830.] 



A Description of the Birds inhabiting the South of 

 Africa. By ANDREW SMITH, M.D. Member of the 

 \Vernerian 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 tribus subalbidis transversis notata t 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 

 are marked by alternate bands of blackish brown and dirty 

 light white ; secondaries nearly similarly colored, and all tipt 

 with white. 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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