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quill feathers blackish brown, some of them edged on outer 

 vanes with tawny, all tipt with reddish white ; secondaries dark 

 dirty brown, narrowly edged and tipt with reddish white ; pri- 

 mary quill feathers black ; secondaries blackish brown on the 

 outer vanes, on the inner greyish, variegated by many transverse 

 dark bands ; tips reddish tawny. Tail rounded, brownish grey, 

 and much mottled by partial indistinct transverse narrow dusky 

 black bands ; tips of feathers all tawny ; under parts tawny 

 with brown variegations, particularly numerous on the flanks 

 and anterior part of the belly ; thighs dark ferruginous ; toes 

 yellow ; claws dark horn-coloured. Length about two feet four 

 inches. 



Young. Prevailing colour chesnut, without the brown varie- 

 gations of the older bird ; feathers of the head and back of 

 neck tipt with light tawny. Tail dirty brownish grey, tipt with 

 reddish white ; cere and toes dull yellow ; claws black ; eyes 

 yellow. 



Inhabits South Africa, common. 



Falco rapax, Temm. pi. 455. Falco naevioides? Guv. 

 Aquila choka, Smith. South African Quarterly Journal, vol. i. 

 p. 114. Chok of the Cape Colonists. 



Aquila Bellicosa, Daudin. Bill bluish at the base, black 

 elsewhere ; eyes fine brown ; space between them and bill thin- 

 ly covered with black bristles ; plumage of hindhead a little 

 elongated, so as to form a very slight crest. Feathers of head, 

 and of back and sides of neck, variegated blackish brown and 

 white ; interscapulars, back, tail coverts, and shoulders, more 

 or less deep brown; with the tips of all the feathers, but 

 particularly of those of the latter, dusky white ; throat, 

 breast, belly, and legs, pure white. Primary wing feathers 

 black, tipt with white ; secondaries alternately banded with 

 dusky blackish brown and dull hoary grey, all broadly 

 tipt with white. Tail slightly rounded, with each feather 

 banded more or less directly across by black and hoary grey, 

 the latter usually passing to white towards the inner margins of 

 the inner vanes, all distinctly tipt with white. Tarsi and toes a 

 light livid green, inclining sometimes to yellowish green ; claws 

 deep black and much curved. Length from bill to base of tail 

 twenty inches ; length of latter twelve inches ; expanse of wings 

 about eight feet and a half. 



'Young. Above blackish brown ; throat and breast nearly 

 black ; belly and legs dull white with black blotches. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Falco Armiger, Shaw. vii. 57. Le GrifEard, Le Vaill. 



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