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General colour sooty black, tinged with chest- 

 nut on rump. (Female more brownish.) 

 56a. Parabuteo unicinctus harrisi (Audub.), B. Am., 

 pi. cccxcii., 1831 ; Orn. Biog., v., p. 30. 

 Harris's Buzzard-Hawk. 



Central and 

 N. America 

 from Panama 

 to Southern 

 U.S. 



Gen. XXIII. MELIERAX Gray (1840). 



Tarsus scaled in front, reticulated on outer aspect, 

 not feathered so far down as length of middle 

 toe. 



Size large (length 21 in. ; wing 14.8) ; 

 general plumage bluish ash; quills black; 

 wing-coverts, secondaries, upper tail -co verts 

 and base of tail whitish freckled with 

 grey ; outer tail-feathers white, barred with 

 black ; belly white, narrowly barred with 

 blackish. 

 57. Melierax canorus canorus (Rislach), in Thunb., S. Africa 

 Diss. Ac, iii., p. 264 (1799). below 



Chanting Goshawk. 15°S.lat. 



Size similar ; tail-coverts white, with numerous 

 bars of slaty grey ; tail blackish, with 4 white 

 bands, the middle feathers unbarred ; below 

 white, minutely barred with ashy grey. 

 57a. Melierax canorus metabates, Heugl., Ibis, 1861, N.E. Africa, 

 p. 72. Sudan to 



Many- banded Hawk. Mogador, 



{= M.'polyzonusoia.Vithor&.'l W. Arabia. 



Much lighter form . 



57b. Melierax canorus neumanni, Hart., Vog. Pal. Nubia to 



Fauna, ii., p. 1165 (1914). Sudan & 



Neumann's Goshawk. Hausaland. 



Rather smaller ; above darker slate ; throat, 

 chest and wings, light grey ; below white, with 

 narrow blackish bars ; tail black, tip and upper 

 tail-coverts white. 

 57c. Melierax canorus poliopterus Cab., inDecken's 

 Reise, iii., Vog., p. 40 (1869). 

 E. African Groshawk. 



E. Africa, 

 Somaliland to 

 Kilimanjaro. 



