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[FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 



Second Series, APRIL to JUNE, 1834.] 



PART II. 



52 5B5DS* 



ORDER RAPTORES. Vigors. 



BILL stout, covered with a cere at its base, its tip bent down ; 

 less strong, short or of moderate length ; tarsi naked or more or 

 less covered with feathers or down ; toes four, three before and 

 one behind ; claws strong, moveable, arcuated, acute or blunt. 



FAM. GYPOGERANIM].* 



Bill robust, strongly curved at the point ; legs very long, 

 slender, feathered to, or nearly to the tarsi, the latter scutulated 

 or reticulated ; the middle and outer toes united by a small 

 membrane at their base ; wings moderate. 



Genus GYPOGERANUS. Uliger. 



Sill robust, shorter than the head, straight at its lose, curved 

 towards its extremity ; sides compressed ; nostrils lateral, oblong, 

 oblique, open, and situated in the cere ; tongue fleshy and point- 

 ed ; space round eyes naked ; eyebrows prominent ; tarsi scutu- 

 lated ; wings armed with three obtuse spurs ; the first five quilh 

 of equal length; tail feathers twelve. 



Gypogeranus Africanus. Cere, and naked space round eyes, 

 yellow or orange ; bill blackish towards base, light bluish white 

 towards tip ; eyes light brown ; top of head, hinder part of neck, 

 back and shoulders blue-grey ; sides of neck, throat, and breast 

 pale grey ; belly white ; vent and thighs black, most of the 

 feathers narrowly tipt with white. Hindhead with a long crest 

 of narrow black feathers that increase in width towards their 

 points which are generally white ; greater wing coverts and 

 quills black. Tail rounded, the two middle feathers nearly 

 double the length of the others, hoary grey, each with a broad 

 black band towards point, the point itself white ; the lateral 



# Accipitres Gallinace'eB, Lesson, Traite d* Ornitkologie, p. 14. 



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