by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 15 



541. ACCIPITEK OVAMPENSIS. 



Tv. Legogot, May 15 (1 (J). 



This is a rare species. I have found in the British 

 i\Iuseum collection three examples from the Upper Zambesi, 

 one from Nyasaland, and one from Abyssinia. So far as I 

 know, it has not been previously taken further south than 

 the Umfuli River in Mashonaland, where JNIarshall found it 

 breeding. Its occurrence in the Barberton district of the 

 Transvaal, therefore, is a considerable extension of its 

 range. 



[I have not seen this Hawk elsewhere than at Legogot, 

 and there the only specimen observed was secured. It was 

 taken in ordinary " bush-veld/' the flight being exactly 

 similar to that of the other members of the genus. 



The soft parts are : — Irides reddish brown ; cere orange ; 

 gape and round the eye lemon ; legs and toes dull orange.] 



543. ASTUR TACHIRO. 



Z. Sibudeni, Nov., Dec. (2); Ngoye Hills, Oct. (1); 

 Tv. Wakkerstroom, Mch. (1) ; Zuurbron, May (1) ; Wood- 

 bush, May (1); P. Tambarara, May (1). 



[" Emviimvyane" of the Zulus. 



This Goshawk has been noted from Ngoye and Sibudeni 

 in Zululand ; Zuurbron and Wakkerstroom in the S.E. 

 Transvaal ; Woodbush in the Northern Transvaal ; and the 

 luhambane and Gorongoza Districts of Portuguese East 

 Africa. It is strictly a Hawk of the forests, and all the 

 specimens secured were taken in forest country, except the 

 young one from Wakkerstroom; this was shot in a plantation 

 and orchard at a homestead in open country, and was probably 

 passing over. I have generally seen this Hawk in the in- 

 terior of the forests, when walking quietly through or sitting 

 up forBluebuck. The flight and appearance much resemble 

 those of theEuropean Sparrow-Hawk (^.«m<5). It, however, 

 has the peculiar habit, unlike any other Hawk I have seen, of 

 often soaring to such a height that it can only be detected 

 with a good glass, flying in smaller or greater circles with 

 quick wing-beats and uttering at regular intervals a shrill 



