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white, here and there dotted or finely streaked with black ; 

 belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, finely banded black and 

 white. Tail slightly rounded, the two centre feathers blackish 

 grey, the rest blackish, or blackish grey and white in different 

 proportions, the latter particularly abundant in the two outer- 

 most ones of each side, all, with the exception of the two mid- 

 dle ones, broadly tipt with white. Upper and lower mandibles 

 at base orange-coloured, elsewhere black. Cere, tarsi, and 

 toes, red ; claws black. Length twenty inches. 



Young.' Bill blackish, with a little of the base of each man- 

 dible yellow ; cere greenish yellow ; eyes greyish yellow, in- 

 clined to pure yellow ; head, neck, and back, brown, the 

 feathers of the two former white towards quills ; tail coverts 

 white, with a triangular brown spot near the tip of each ; 

 shoulders brown, with the feathers edged and tipt with reddish 

 white ; belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, marked with 

 alternate broad irregular brown and white bands. Primary 

 wing coverts brown, tipt with white ; primary wing feathers 

 reddish brown, banded with black, the outer vanes tinted with 

 grey ; secondaries bluish grey, banded with black, and tipt with 

 white ; tail with reddish grey and blackish brown transverse 

 bands, the former four in number; legs and toes somewhat 

 flesh-coloured ; claws black. 



Inhabits Africa, common in South Africa. 



Fak-o Musicus, Daud. Orn. p. 116. Le Faucon chanteur, 

 Le Vaill. pi. 27. Blaauwe Valk of the Cape Colonists. 



Accipiter rufiventris, Lath. Head, upper part of neck, back, 

 and upper tail coverts, blue-grey or ashy brown ; sides of neck, 

 throat, breast, anterior parts of belly and thighs, light rufous ; 

 hinder part of belly, vent, and under tail coverts, pure white. 

 Wing feathers dirty brown, the inner vanes banded with black 

 and blotched towards quills with white. Tail above brown- 

 black with four brownish grey transverse bands, beneath white 

 with dark brown bands ; tips of all the feathers white. Bill 

 black, the festoon and base of lower mandible yellow ; legs, 

 toes, and cere, yellow ; claws black. Length of male ten inches, 

 of female fourteen inches. 



Young. Above brown, the feathers of head, neck, and 

 shoulders, margined with rufous ; beneath light rufous or ru- 

 fous-white, variegated with slender longitudinal streaks. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Accipiter mmullus, Lath. Head, neck, and back, a dark 

 slate colour ; upper tail coverts white, spotted or banded with 

 black. Chin and throat white, finely mottled or indistinctly 

 rayed with black ; sides of breast and belly rufous, middle of 



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