. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 276 FALCONID^. Afr. i. pi. 4 (1837); Strickl. Orn. Si/n. p. 121 (1855); Hartl. Orn. p. 18 (1857); Schl. Mtis. Astures, p. 24 (1802) ; Ilem/l. Orn. p. 64 (1869); Schl. Jtevue Accipitr. t^. Q7 (1873). Nisiis monogrammiciis, Less. Traite, p. 57 (). Accipiter monogrammicus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 29 (1849). Melierax luonogTammicus, Jfartl. Beitr. Orn. p. 15 (1852). Micronisus monogi'ammicus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 34 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 36 (1869). Kaupifaleo inonogTammicus, Bjy. Rev. et Mag. tie Zool. 1854, p. 535
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 276 FALCONID^. Afr. i. pi. 4 (1837); Strickl. Orn. Si/n. p. 121 (1855); Hartl. Orn. p. 18 (1857); Schl. Mtis. Astures, p. 24 (1802) ; Ilem/l. Orn. p. 64 (1869); Schl. Jtevue Accipitr. t^. Q7 (1873). Nisiis monogrammiciis, Less. Traite, p. 57 (). Accipiter monogrammicus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 29 (1849). Melierax luonogTammicus, Jfartl. Beitr. Orn. p. 15 (1852). Micronisus monogi'ammicus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 34 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 36 (1869). Kaupifaleo inonogTammicus, Bjy. Rev. et Mag. tie Zool. 1854, p. Leg of Asturinula monogremimka. Adult. Above dark slaty grey, the head and sides of the face lighter, the wing-coverts also a little paler grey, the edge of the wing white, with which colour the outermost of the upper primary coverts is edged; quills blackish, all tipped, and the outermost edged, with white, the secondaries ashy grey like the back and more broadly tipped ; all the quills white at the base of the inner web, extending in notches for some distance up the feather; lower back and rump blackish ; the upper tail-coverts and immediate base of tail white, forming a broad band ; tail blackish, broadly tipped with white, and having one conspicuous white baud across the centre ; lores and feathers in front of the eye whitish ; throat white, with a very broad streak of black down the centre ; fore neck, sides of neck, and chest ashy grey ; rest of under surface, including the flanks and axillaries, thickly barred with white and ashy brown ; under wing- and tail- coverts white; cere, orbits, and base of lower mandible bright cinnabar-red; biU dark leaden horn-colour; feet vermilion; iris umber-brown. Total length 12 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 8-9, tail 5-8, tarsus 1-95. Adult female. A little larger than the male. Total length 13-5 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 9-5, tail 6-5, tarsus 2-1. Sab. Western and North-eastern Africa, as far south as Zan- zibar in Eastern Please
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