3] 
Wing 3 295-315, 2 323 mm. ; above darker 
slate, except throat, chest and wings, 
which are light grey, the wings uniform 
instead of freckled; below white, with 
narrow blackish bars; upper tail-coverts 
white. 
62. Melerax mechowi Cab., J.f.0., 1882, p. 229. Angola, 
[Angola.] Damaraland to 
Angola Goshawk. Mashonaland, 
Nyasaland. 
Wing $310, 2330 mm. ; much darker above 
and below than M. c. metabates, which has 
white bars below rather broader than dark 
bars, reverse being case in this species ; 
wing-coverts and secondaries uniform ; 
upper tail-coverts black, barred with white. 
*63. Melierax gabar (Daud.), Traité, ii, p. 89 S. Africa, E. & 
(1800). [ex. Levaillant—interior of S. N.E. Africa. 
Africa.] 
Red-faced Goshawk. 
Size small ; wing ¢ 180, 2210 mm. ; above, 
throat and chest ashy grey ; rump blackish, 
upper tail-coverts white; quills and tail 
ashy brown, latter with 3 bands of black ; 
below white barred with dusky. (M. 
niger, a common melanistic phase, is uni- 
form black). 
Gen. XXV. ASTUR Lacep. (1801). 
_ Type by subs. desig. (Vigors 1824) Falco palumbarius (= gentilis) L. 
Bill short, cutting edge of upper mandible with a 
festoon ; nostrils oval, with no bony tubercle ; 
toes moderate, middle one somewhat longest, 
outer and inner nearly equal. 
