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lars and back dark brown ; throat, breast, and belly, tawny 

 white, more or less variegated with longitudinal brown streaks. 



Inhabits South Africa, near Heer-logement. 



Morphnus dubius, Smith. South African Quarterly Journal, 

 vol. i. p. 117. 



Genus CIECUS. Bechst. 



Bill moderately compressed ; spaces between eyes and nostrils 

 covered with rigid hair ; nostrils oblong rounded ; a colter et of 

 rigid feathers in a half-circle between the chin and the ears, 

 formed by the auricular feathers. Tarsi long, slender, scu- 

 tellated before, reticulated behind; claws moderate. Tail 

 rounded and broad. 



Circus gallinarius, Shaw. Male, Head, neck, back, wings, 

 and rump, bluish-grey ; wing feathers white at their bases, 

 elsewhere black ; insides of shoulders, rump, belly, flanks, 

 thighs, and tail beneath, white ; tail above ashy grey, tips of 

 feathers white ; eyes yellow. Length one foot seven inches. 



Female. Upper parts dull brown; the feathers of head, 

 neck, and anterior part of back, bordered with rufous ; beneath 

 yellow-rufous, variegated with large longitudinal brown spots; 

 outer vanes of wing feathers rayed dark brown and black, in- 

 ner ones black and white ; rump white ; the two middle tail- 

 feathers rayed black and deep ash, the lateral ones rufous- 

 yellow and black. 



Young, Similar to the female, and the male of the first and 

 second year. 



Inhabits Egypt, Europe, and America. 



L'Oiseau Saint-Martin, Buff. Falco Gallinarius, Lin. 

 Falco Pygargus, Gmel. 



Circus melanoleucus. Head, neck, back, rump, shoulders* 

 and upper parts of breast, deep black ; under parts pure white- 

 Primary quill feathers black, secondaries and wing coverts 

 cinerious, variegated with black spots or imperfect bands. Tail 

 above, hoary grey, irregularly spotted with brown ; beneath 

 white. Bill black, with a yellowish spot on each mandible to- 

 wards base ; cere, tarsi, and toes, yellow ; claws black. 

 Length twenty-two inches. 



Female. Grey- white dashed with black. 



Young. Brown-black above ; white beneath, dashed with 

 longitudinal brown- black streaks. 



Inhabits South Africa and India 



Falco melanoleucus, Gmel. Lath. Faucon a collier des 

 Indes, Sonnerat, Itin, t. ii. p. 182. Le Tchong, Le Vaill. 

 Afriq. pi 32. 



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