POLYBOROIDES TYPICUS.— Smith. 



AvES. — Plates LXXXI. (Adult Female.) 



P. capite, cervice, pectore interscapuliisque cincrcis, ferrugineo-tinctis, his lineis riibro-bnmneis yer- 

 miculatis ; dorso ventreque fasciolis albis nigro-brunneisque" fasciatis ; phiuiis scapularibiis maculis 

 virido-nigris notatis ; cauda nigro-brunnea purpureo-tincta, yersus apicein fascia alba transversa, 

 versus basin fasciolis duabus aut tribus irregularibus ejusdem coloris ; tarsis compressis reticulatis ; 

 capitis lateribiis nudis ; oculis flavis. 

 LoNGiTUDO e rostri apice ad basin caudse 14 unc. ; caud;B IG unc. 

 Falco Gymnogenys, Temm. — PI. col. 307. 



PoLYBOROiDES TYPICUS, Smith. — South African Quarterly .Journal, March, 1830. 

 Gymnogenys Madagascariensis, Less. — Traite d'Ornith. Paris, Nov. 1S30. 



Colour. — The head, neck, breast, interscapulars, scapulars and lesser wing- 

 coverts, rusty pearl grey, the three last verniiculated transversely with deli- 

 cate reddish brown lines and several of the scapulars variegated beside near 

 their tip with a large greenish black blotch. The back, upper tail coverts, 

 belly, vent, under tail coverts and thighs alternately barred white and liver- 

 brown, the bars transverse and narrow, and each of the white ones has a fine 

 prolongation, following in the course of the shaft, directed towards the point of 

 the feathers. The primary and secondary quill coverts rusty pearl-grey each 

 with an irregular greenish black blotch towards the point most distinct on the 

 outer vane, their tips white. The primary quill feathers deep liver-brown 

 with either a purple or greenish gloss according to the light in which they 

 are observed, and the tips of all or only part of them white ; the secondaries 

 towards quills pearl-grey with the inner vanes verniiculated with brownish 

 red, towards the tips they are greenish black, and the tips themselves are 

 white margined faintly with yellowish brown. Tail feathers the same colour 

 as the primary quill feathers, and each is crossed towards the tip with a 

 broad white bar, and towards the base with two or three narrow irregular ones, 

 the inner vanes besides are variegated with oblique irregular white lines ; the 

 broad white bar towards the tip is freely variegated with numerous liver-brown 



