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Wing c? 295-315, ? 323 mm. ; above darker 

 slate, except throat, chest and wings, 

 which are hght grey, the wings uniform 

 instead of freckled; below white, with 

 narrow blackish bars ; upper tail-coverts 

 white. 



62. Melierax mechowi Cab., J.f.O., 1882, p. 229. 

 {Angola.} 

 Angola Goshawk. 



Wing <? 310, ? 330 mm. ; much darker above 

 and below than M. c. metabates, which has 

 white bars below rather broader than dark 

 bars, reverse, being case in this species ; 

 wing-coverts and secondaries uniform ; 

 upper tail-coverts black, barred with white. 



Angola, 



Damaraland to 

 Mashonaland, 

 Nyasaland. 



*63. Melierax gabar (Daud.), Traite, ii., p. 

 (1800). [ex. Levaillant — interior of 

 Africa.] 

 Red-faced Goshawk. 



89 S. Africa, E. & 

 5. N.E. Africa. 



Size small ; wingcj 180, ? 210 mm. ; above, 

 throat and chest ashy grey ; rump blackish, 

 upper tail-coverts white ; quills and tail 

 ashy brown, latter with 3 bands of black ; 

 below white barred with dusky. {M. 

 niger, a common melanistic phase, is uni- 

 form black). 



Gen. XXV. ASTUR Lacep. (1801). 

 Type by subs, desig. (Vigors 1824) Falco palumbarius (= gentilis) L. 



Bill short, cutting edge of upper mandible with a 

 festoon ; nostrils oval, with no bony tubercle ; 

 toes moderate, middle one somewhat longest, 

 outer and inner nearly equal. ^ 



