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Gen. XXIV. MELIERAX Gray (1840). 
Type Falco musicus Daud. 
Tarsus scaled in front, reticulated on outer aspect, 
not feathered so far down as length of middle toe. 
*60. 
*60a. 
60b. 
61. 
Meliervax musicus musicus Daudin, Traité, 
ii., p. 116 (1800). [ex. Levaillant—Cape 
Colony. | 
Chanting Goshawk. 
Size large; wing ¢ 333-360, 2 373 mm. ; 
general plumage bluish ash; quills black ; 
wing-coverts and secondaries whitish frec- 
kled with grey ; upper tail-coverts white ; 
central tail feathers black, outer feathers 
white, barred with black; belly white, 
narrowly barred with greyish-black. 
Melierax musicus metabates, Heugl., Ibis, 
1861, p. 72. [Upper White Nile.] 
Many-banded Hawk. 
Smaller ; wing ¢ 298-310, 9 310-325 mm. ; 
tail-coverts white, with numerous bars of 
slaty grey; below white, more minutely 
barred with ashy grey. 
Melierax musicus neumanni, Hart., Vog. 
pal. Fauna, ii., p. 1165 (1914). [Merowe, 
Dongola, type in Tring Mus. ] 
Neumann’s Goshawk. 
Lighter form ; wing $ 300-310, 2 328 mm. ; 
freckling of wing coverts and secondaries 
developed into bars; tail-coverts rather 
less barred. 
Melierax poliopterus Cab., J.f.0., 1868, 
p. 413. [£. Africa, type in Berlin Mus. | 
E. African Goshawk. 
S. Africa below 
15° S. lat. 
N. E. Africa. 
Sudan to 
Mogador, 
W. Arabia. 
Nubia to Sudan 
& Hausaland. 
E. Africa, 
Somaliland to 
Kilimanjaro. 
