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*104. Accipitei' minuUus minullus (Da.ud.) , TrsLite., S. Africa, to 



ii., p. 88 (1800). [ex. Leva.illa.nt— Rives du Brit. E. Africa 



Gamtoos.] on E. and 



Little Sparrow- Hawk. Angola on W.^ 



Wing cJ 147, 2 168 mm. ; above slaty black ; 

 upper tail-coverts tipped with white ; tail 

 with 2 faint paler bands, and 2 large spots 

 of white on inner webs ; below white (sides 

 bright chestnut), narrowly barred with 

 rufous. 



104a. Accipiter minuilus intermedius Erlang., J. 

 f. Orn., p. 173 (1904). \Abela, S. Abys- 

 sinia.'] 

 Abyssinian Spar row- Hawk. 



Sides paler ; bars darker and broader. 



N.E. Africa, 

 from Egyptian 

 Soudan and 

 Abyssima 

 to Uganda. 



104b. Accipiter minuilus 

 J.f.O., 1855, p. 354. 

 Leyden Mus.] 

 Red-legged Sparrow-Hawk 



erythropus (Hartl.), 

 [Gold Coast, type in 



Wing (J 152 mm. ; upper tail-coverts con- 

 spicuously white ; barrings below blackish 

 brown with very little rufous. 



W. Africa, 

 Gold Coast to 

 Cameroons. 



105. Accipiter ovampensis Gurney, Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 367, pi. vi. [Okavango River, type in 

 Norwich Mus.] 

 Gurney's Sparrow- Hawk. 



Wing S 232, ? 264 mm. ; above dark ashy 

 grey ; tail with 4 darker bars, alternated 

 with paler bands, in centre of each of which 

 is a white spot ; below white with narrow 

 grey bands. 



i A. minuilus tropicalis Reich. (J. i. O. p. 139, 1908) from E. Africa does not 

 after carefiil comparison appear to be separable. 



Ovampo Land, 

 S.W. Africa, to 

 Zambesi, 

 Nyasaland, 

 S. Abyssinia, 

 Gambaga 

 (Gold Coast). 



