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resembles in habits. The stomach of a specimen in my collec¬ 
tion contained four large green locusts. Both these Harriers 
are migratory, occurring only during our wet season 
160. Melierax polyzoncjs. (Manv-banded Goshawk.) 
Mr. Swynnerton obtained a single example of this Hawk in 
January last. The stomach contained a lizard and some 
beetles. 
161. Astur polyzonoides. (Little Barred Goshawk.) 
This little Hawk is one of our commonest birds of prey, and 
also is one of the few which reside here all the year round. 
It is by no means shy, sitting fairly close within the foliage 
of the trees; when disturbed it descends with alow swooping 
flight, dodging in the bush, but for no great distance, and 
rising abruptly to its perch. The nest is a neat structure of 
sticks placed in the fork of a tree, about 15 or 20 feet from 
the ground; the eggs, which are three or four in number, 
are dull white, with highly variable blotches of Vandyke-brown 
and underlying markings of lilac-grey, and measure 38 x 
30 mm. Stomachs contained lizards, snakes, locusts, and 
winged termites. The young bird differs in having the under¬ 
parts marked with longitudinal blotches of light reddish 
brown. 
162. Accipiter ovampensis. (Ovampo Sparrow-Hawk.) 
I have obtained only a single specimen in Mashona- 
land, which is probably referable to this species *. It was 
one of a pair which frequented a kloof close to Mr. Darling’s 
camp at Mazoe in December 1898. It was a young female 
with undeveloped ovaries, and appeared to differ from what 
I could remember of Natal examples in the colour of the 
breast, which was rufous, with very narrow black shaft-stripes, 
and also in its buff under tail-coverts. The stomach contained 
remains of a small bird, apparently a Weaver. 
163. Buteo jakal. (Jackal Buzzard.) 
This is the only Buzzard with which I am acquainted here, 
* [This is probably the specimen recently sent to the British Museum 
by Mr. Marshall.—E dd.] 
