308 FALCONIDiE LOPHOAETUS 



1864, p. 315 [Zambesi valley] ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 13 (1867) ; 

 id. Ibis, 1869, p. 71. 

 Lophoaetus occipitalis, Sliarpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 274 (1874) ; id. ed. 

 Layard' s B. 8. Afr. p. 41 (1875); Gurney, Ibis, 1877, p. 422; W. 

 Ayres, Ibis, 1887, p. 48 [Zoutspansberg] ; Bendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 166 

 [Barberfcon] ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 149 (1896) ; Woodward Bros. 

 Ibis, 1895, p. 22 [Zululand] ; id. Natal B. p. 146 (1899) ; Beichenow, 

 Vog. Afr. i, p. 582 (1901). 

 "Kuifkop Valk" of Dutch colonists; "Black Hawk" of Natal 

 Colonists ; " Isipumongati " {i.e. fool) of the Zulus (Woodward). 



Description. Adult male. — General colour dark chocolate- 

 brown ; a long crest of eight or ten narrow feathers 4 to 5 inches in 

 length on the occiput the same colour ; primaries white on the 

 basal half, pale brown on the distal half, tipped and crossed by bars of 

 blackish brown ; tail dark brown crossed by four or five bars of paler 

 brown becoming almost white on the basal bars and oa the inner 



Fig. 100. — Lophoaetus occipitalis. 



webs ; underparts including the thighs brown ; legs white (streaked 

 with brown in younger birds) ; under wing-coverts dark brown and 

 white ; wing-quills and tail below white, banded with dark brown. 



Iris bright yellow to hazel ; bill bluish-black ; cere pale yellow ; 

 toes pale yellow, claws black. 



Length 230; wing 15-25 ; tail 8'5 ; culmen 1-8 ; tarsus 4-0. 



The female is of much the same size ; length 24-0 ; wing 15-25 ; 

 tail 8-5 ; tarsus 4-0. 



Distribution. — This bird is found over the greater part of the 

 Ethiopian region, especially in the more wooded districts from 

 Senegal and Abyssinia southwards. 



Within our limits it is restricted to the southern and eastern 

 portions of the Colony, to Natal, the eastern portion of the Trans- 

 vaal and to the Zambesi valley. It was not met with by Andersson 

 in Damaraland, 



