. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 300 FALCONID^.. Head of Helotarsus ecaiidatus (reduced). Range. The whole of Africa, below the Sahara. 1. Helotarsus ecaudatus. Le Bateleur, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 31, pis. 7, 8 (1799) ; Stmd^v. Krit. om Levaill. p. 24 (1858). Falco ecaudatus, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 54 (1800, ex LevaiU.'). Aquila ecaudata, Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. i. p. 356 (1816). Circaetus ecaudatus, Cuv. Hegne An. i. p. 328 (1829); Schl. Miis. Buteones, p. 28 (1862); id. Revue Accipkr. p. 115 (1873). Helotarsus typus, Smith, S. Afr. Q. Journ. i. p. 110 (1830). Terathrop
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 300 FALCONID^.. Head of Helotarsus ecaiidatus (reduced). Range. The whole of Africa, below the Sahara. 1. Helotarsus ecaudatus. Le Bateleur, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 31, pis. 7, 8 (1799) ; Stmd^v. Krit. om Levaill. p. 24 (1858). Falco ecaudatus, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 54 (1800, ex LevaiU.'). Aquila ecaudata, Dumont, Diet. Sci. Nat. i. p. 356 (1816). Circaetus ecaudatus, Cuv. Hegne An. i. p. 328 (1829); Schl. Miis. Buteones, p. 28 (1862); id. Revue Accipkr. p. 115 (1873). Helotarsus typus, Smith, S. Afr. Q. Journ. i. p. 110 (1830). Terathropius ecaudatus, Less. Traite, p. 47 (1831). Helotarsus ecaudatus, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 3 (1840), et Gen. B. i. p. 18, pi. 7. fig. 11 (184-5) ; Des Mtirs in Lefebv. Voy. Abyss. Ois. p. 66, pi. 11 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 716 (1850); Strickl. Om. Syn. p. 76 (1855) ; Hartl. Om. p. 7 (1857) ; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 51 (1858); Pelz. Verh. 'Wien, 1863 p. 594; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 18 (1867); Gi-ay, Hand-l. B. i. p. 17 (1869): Heugl. Orn. N. i. p. 80 (1869) ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. ii. p. 337 (1869) ; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 202 (1870) ; Blanf. Geol. ^ Zool. Abyss. p. 296 (1870); Finsch u. Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 51 (1870); Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 10 (1872). Helotarsus brachjoirus, Brehm, O. 1858, p. 491. Falco brevicaudatus, Pelz. Verh. Wien, 1863, p. 594 (ex Natt. MS.). Helotarsus ecaudatus, var. fasciatus, Heugl. Orn, i. p. 81 (1869). Nestlitxg. Covered with dense white down, the feathers, which are visible, being blackish brown, with very broad rufous margins, the head and neck almost entirely rufous, with dull brown bases to the feathers. Adult male. Head (very much crested) and neck all round, as well as the entire parts, glossy black ; hind neck and back rich maroon, the lower back rather paler than the interscapulary region ; scapu- lars black ; wing-coverts bronzy brown, the greater coverts rather darker and blackish at bas
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