from Efulea in Cameroon. 101 



cinereo fasciatim irroratis ; corporis lateribus dilute 

 vinaceis. Long. tot. circa 11*2 poll., culm. 08, alee 7*1, 

 caudse 5'2, tarsi 20. 



a. Efulen, Aiig. 4, 1902. " Obi-mveu." 



In his recently published volume of ' Die Vogel Afrikas ' 

 Prof. Reichenow has separated the small Sparrow-Hawks of 

 West Africa into three species — Accipiter erythropus, A. hart- 

 laubi, and A. sharpei. The last is the bird which I erroneously 

 figured in the ' Catalogue of Birds' as A. hartlaubi, and is 

 the form which is found from Cameroon to Benguela. It 

 has vinous-chestnut breast and thighs. The true A. hartlaubi 

 ranges from Senegambia to Togo-land, and is the bird which 

 I named A. buettikoferi, from Liberia. The thighs are greyish, 

 and the vinous colour on the sides of the body is paler than 

 in ^L sharpei. 



Now Mr. Bates sends from Efulen a Sparrow-Hawk much 

 larger than either of the foregoing species. It is a hen 

 bird, which may account for the size (wing 7'1 inches). It 

 approaches A. hartlaubi in colour, having greyish thighs 

 with a few dusky grey bars and a faint tinge of vinous. The 

 breast is faintly barred with grey and the sides of the body 

 are pale vinous ; the specimen, however, differs from A. hart- 

 laubi in having two oval spots of white on the central tail- 

 feathers, as in A. sharpei. Cameroon is supposed to have 

 only A. sharpei as its representative species, so that, in any 

 case, the occurrence of an Accipiter of the type of A. hartlaubi 

 is interesting, and, so far as our facts carry us, it must be 

 looked upon as an undescribed form. 



The British Museum contains the following adult examples 

 of these little Sparrow-Hawks : — 



Accipiter hartlaubi. — a. Liberia, Sept. 24 (J . Biittikofer) . 

 b. Accra. Presented by Messrs. Mordaunt. 



Accipiter sharpei. — a. Ad. Gaboon (Marche). 



Accipiter batesi. — a. ? ad. Efulen, Aug. (G. L. Bates). 



33. Accipiter sharpei. 



Accipiter hartlaubi (nee Verr.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. i. pi. vi. 

 fig. 2. 



