26 BIRDS OF DAMABA LAND. 



below the eye; M. alcinus has the latter plainly mottled, but has 

 no distinct supercilium, though the feathers round the rim of 

 the eye are whitish." — Ed. J 



32. Kaupifalco monogranunicus, Temm. One-streaked Hawk. 



Aster monogrammicus, Swainson's Birds of West Africa, vol. i. pi. 4. 

 Astur inonogrmmnicas, Hartlaub's Birds of West Africa, No. 30. 

 Melierax monogrammicus, Gurney, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 



1864, p. 2. 

 Kaupifalco monogrammicus, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 352. 



[The Norwich Museum contains a male of this species, 

 obtained by Mr. Andersson at Elephant's Vley*, on October 

 26th, 1859, which is the most southern example of this species 

 that has come under my notice. — Ed. J 



33. Melierax musicUS (Baud.). Chanting Hawk. 



Le Faucon chanfeur, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pi. 27. 



Melierax musicus, Layard's Cat. No. 46. 



Falco mudcus, Chapman's Travels in S. Air., App. 391. 



This handsome species is one of the most common 

 Hawks in Damara and Great Namaqua Land, where it 

 is found throughout the year ; it is particularly abundant 

 about Walvisch Bay, and is usually found in open 

 country. It perches on a dry branch on the top of some 

 low acacia, whence it will watch with the greatest 

 assiduity for hours together. It has a skimming flight, 

 occasionally moving its large wings with a slow and 

 heavy undulation. 



From the contents of the stomachs of those I have 



* [Sir. Andersson appears to have given this name to a locality about six 

 days' journey to the south of the Okavango Eiver, where he remained 

 encamped from about July 20th to November 23rd, 1859, and made a large 

 collection of birds' skins. Vide Andersson's ' Okavango River,' pp. 220, 234, 

 236, 244.— Ed.] 



