CIRCUS MAURUS.— Temm. 



AvEs. — Plate LVIII. — Young Female. 



C. supra bnmneo-ruber, plumarum plurimis subnifo-marginatis, infra rufo-albus brunneo-stri^iatus, nucha 

 albo brunneoque variegata; reniigibus exterue griseis, interne versus basin albis brunneo-niaculatis, 

 versus apicem brunneo-rubris ; cauda nigro-brunnea, fasciis quatuor subgriseis notata, plumarum 

 apicibus rufo-albis. Oculis flavis. Eostro nigro-brunneo ; pedibus flavis. 



Circus Lalandi, Smith. — South African Quarterly Journal, vol. i. page .383. 1830. 



Colour. — The upper surface of head blackish brown, the feathers of vertex 

 broadly margined with rufous ; nuchal feathers white, variegated with brown, 

 the latter colour in oval blotches, one reaching the tip of each feather ; the 

 rest of the upper parts reddish brown with most of the feathers broadly tipped 

 with a colour intermediate between sienna and cream-yellow ; upper tail 

 coverts white. The sides of head white, tinged with sienna yellow, and deli- 

 cately streaked longitudinally with brown ; chin white, the shaft of each 

 feather brown. The rest of the under parts between ochre and sienna-yellow, 

 the breast and anterior part of belly nearly white ; the throat, anterior part 

 of breast, flanks and outer surface of legs blotched with brownish red. The 

 cervical collar behind the ear coverts deep brownish red, elsewhere of the 

 same colour as the throat. Tail feathers white at their base, then brownish 

 red, the latter colour being crossed by three transverse light coloured bars, 

 which on the middle feathers are smoke-grey with a satin-lustre, on the late- 

 ral feathers white with a sienna yellow tint, the tips of all the feathers of the 

 latter colour ; the outer vanes of quill feathers hoary grey, the inner vanes 

 towards base white, imperfectly barred with brown, towards points livei'- 

 brown. Bill blackish brown, the base of lower mandible yellowish. Legs 

 and toes yellow ; claws the same colour as bill. Eyes yellow.* 



* Adult. — Upper tail coverts white; the outer vanes of the primary and secondary quill coverts as 

 also of the quill feathers rusty lavender-purple, the inner vanes towards quills white, towards tips blackish 

 brown. Tail blackisli brown, with four rusty smoke-grey bands, the tip of each feather the same colour ; 

 the whole of the remaining plumage a uniform blackish brown. 



