3Q2 APPENDIX. 



Order ACCIPITRES. 

 Sub-order Falcones. 

 Family VULTURID^E. 

 i. Otogyps auricularis (Daud.) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds of 

 South Africa, p. 4. Eared Vulture. 

 a. Shot at dead elephant, near Umvungu River, about the middle 

 of November 1873. Iris dark hazel ; bill pale horn-colour, bluish 

 grey at base ; head and neck livid and red (scabby) ; legs and feet 

 pale bluish grey ; claws black. 



2. Neophron pileatus (Burch.) ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 7. Hooded Vul- 



ture. 

 a. Ramakwebani River, August 6, 1874. Lris dark ; bill neutral 

 tint ; head and neck pale dirty blue, tinged with pink on the cheeks ; 

 legs pale dirty blue ; claws black. A female, I am nearly sure. 



Family FALCONIDiE. 

 Sub-family AccipitriNjE. 



3. CIRCUS RANIVORUS (Daud.); Sharpe, /. c. p. 14- South African 



Marsh-Harrier. 

 a. £ Near Pretoria, June 22, 1873. Iris bright chrome ; legs pale 

 yellow. Ball of hair in stomach ; mouse or rat skin in crop. 



4. Melierax CANORUS (Rislach) ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 17. Chanting 



Goshawk. 

 a. $ Bush veldt, between Pretoria and Bamangwato, July 1873. 

 Iris bright raw sienna ; base of beak orange (?) ; legs red. Crop and 

 stomach very full, containing large ants, rat, lizard, etc. 



5. Melierax gabar (Daud.) ; Sharpe, /. c. p. 19. Red-faced Gos- 



hawk. 



a. $ [adult]. Lion Camp, Crocodile River, July 1873. 



b. [young]. Second Makalaka kraal, Zambesi road, September 3, 

 1874. Iris deep orange, approaching burnt sienna ; bill black, orange 

 all round the nostril and base ; skin round eye pale blue ; legs fine 

 reddish, clouded and spotted with dusky black ; claws black. 



6. ASTUR polyzonoides (Smith) ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 22. Many-banded 



Goshawk. 



a. $ [adult]. First Makalaka kraal, Zambesi road, August 22, 

 1874. Iris rich deep orange ; bill black, pale bluish at base ; skin 

 round base pale yellow ; skin round eye pale bluish, inclining to 

 yellow ; claws black. Lizard in stomach. 



b. $ Hendrik's Vlei, December 18, 1874. Lris crimson; bill 

 black, becoming pale blue just under nostril ; cere and gape and skin 

 round eye yellow ; legs orange -yellow ; claws black. In stomach 

 large insects and lizard (?). 



