*104. 
104a. 
104b. 
105. 
54 
Accipiter minullus minullus (Daud.), Traité, 
ii., p. 88 (1800). [ex. Levaillant—Rives du 
Gamtoos. | 
Little Sparrow-Hawk. 
Wing 3 147, 2168 mm. ; above slaty black ; 
upper tail-coverts tipped with white ; tail 
with 2 faint paler bands, and 2 large spots 
of white on inner webs ; below white (sides 
bright chestnut), narrowly barred with 
rufous. 
Accipiter minulus intermedius Erlang., J. 
f. Orn., p. 173 (1904). [Abela, S. Abys- 
sinia.] 
Abyssinian Sparrow-Hawk. 
Sides paler; bars darker and broader. 
Accipiter minullus erythropus (Hartl.), 
J.£.0., 1855, p. 354. [Gold Coast, type in 
Leyden Mus. ] 
Red-legged Sparrow-Hawk. 
Wing ¢ 152 mm. ; upper tail-coverts con- 
spicuously white ; barrings below blackish 
brown with very little rufous. 
Accipiter ovampensis Gurney, Ibis, 1875, 
p. 367, pl. vi. [Okavango River, type in 
Norwich Mus. ] 
Gurney’s Sparrow-Hawk. 
Wing ¢ 232, 2 264 mm. ; above dark ashy 
grey ; tail with 4 darker bars, alternated 
with paler bands, in centre of each of which 
is a white spot ; below white with narrow 
grey bands. 
S. Africa, to 
Brit. E. Africa 
on E. and 
Angola on W.? 
N.E. Africa, 
from Egyptian 
Soudan and 
Abyssinia 
to Uganda. 
W. Africa, 
Gold Coast to 
Cameroons. 
Ovampo Land, 
S.W. Africa, to 
Zambesi, 
Nyasaland, 
S. Abyssinia, 
Gambaga 
(Gold Coast). 
1 A. minullus tropicalis Reich. (J. f. O. p. 139, 1908) from E. Africa does not 
after careful comparison appear to be separable. 
1 gyn 
\ ogee 
