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Wing ad. 310 mm. ; above cinereous brown 

 with black shaft-stripes, and rufous margins 

 to the feathers ; head and neck darker ; 

 least wing-coverts and quills rufous ; tail 

 with 3 or 4 blackish bands, except on centre 

 feathers ; throat creamy buff ; below pale 

 rufous, with narrow shaft streaks. 



Gen. LXX. KAUPIFALCO Bp. (1854). 



Type by monotypy Falco monogrammicus Temm. 

 [ =Asturinula, auct. plur.] 



Size small ; head not crested ; nostrils circular ; 

 tarsi unfeathered, transversely plated in front. 

 Size small. 



*244. Kaupifalco monogrammicus monogrammicus 

 (Temm.), PI. Col., i., livr. 53, pi., 314 (1824). 

 {Senegal.'] 

 One-lined Hawk. 



Wing cj 225, ? 240 mm. ; above slate grey, 

 Hghter on head ; primaries blackish, tipped 

 with white ; rump black ; longer upper 

 tail-coverts white ; tail black, tipped with 

 white and with a median band of white ; 

 throat white with central stripe of blackish ; 

 chest ashy grey ; below white, finely barred 

 with ashy brown. 



Tropical Africa, 

 from Senegal to 

 Cameroon on 

 W., and Sudan 

 to KiUmanjaro 

 on E. 



*244a. Kaupifalco monogrammicus meridionalis 

 Hartl., P.Z.S., 1860, p. 109. [Ambriz, 

 Angola, type in Brit. Mus.] 

 Southern One-lined Hawk. 



Smaller ; wing $ 215 mm. ; bands below 

 much broader and darker, especially on the 



S. Africa ; Natal 

 & Damaraland 

 to Angola on 

 W. and to 

 Nyasaland. 



