380 A Description of the Birds 



[FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 

 No. IV., JULY to SEPTEMBEB 1830.] 



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 Mineralogical Society of Jena, 

 &c. 



[Continued from p. 241.] 

 BUTEO LAGOPTJS.* 



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 Sclavonics, Lath. Ind. 

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

 vol. I, pi. 18. 



B. fuscus ex albido vario rectricibus fuscis hasi dimidia 

 apice que albis ; cera pedibusque luteis. 



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 uniform 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 female has less white upon the head, the neck, and the 



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

 synonymes 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. 



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