POLY B OROIDES TYPICtTS.
(Ay e s._Pla,t& 81)
A ves.—P lates LXXXI. (Adult F emale.)
P. capito, cervice, pectore imtérscapuliisque cinereis, ferrugineo-tinctis, his lineis rubro-brunneis ver-
miculatis ; dorso ventreque fasciolis albia nigro-brunneisque’ fasciatis ; plumis scapnlaribus maoulis
virido-nigris notatis ; panda nigro-bmnneâ purpureo-tinctâ, versus apicem fasciâ albâ transversa,
versus basin fasciolis duabus ant tribus irregularibus ojusdem coloris; tarais compressis reticulatis;
capitis lateribus nudis ; oculis flavis.
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudæ 14 une. ; caudæ 16 une.
Falco Gymnogenys, Temm.—PI. col. 307.
P olyboroides typicus, Smith.—South African Quarterly Journal, March, 1830.
Gymnogenys Madagascariensis, Less.-—Traité d’Ornith. Paris, Nov. 1830.
C olour.—The head, neck, breast, interscapulars, scapulars and lesser wing-
coverts, rusty pearl grey, the three last vermiculated transversely with delicate
reddish brown lines and several of the scapulars variegated beside near
their tip with a large greenish black blotch. The back, upper tail coverts,
belly, vent, under tail coverts and thighs alternately barred white and liver-
brown, the bars transverse and narrow, and each of the white ones has a fine
prolongation, following in the course of the shaft, directed towards the point of
the feathers. The primary and secondary quill coverts rusty pearl-grey each
with an irregular greenish black blotch towards the point most distinct on the
outer vane, their tips white. The primary quill feathers deep liver-brown
with either a purple or greenish gloss according to the light in which they
are observed, and the tips of all or only part of them white; the secondaries
towards quills pearl-grey with the inner vanes vermiculated with brownish
red, towards the tips they are greenish black, and the tips themselves are
white margined faintly with yellowish brown. Tail feathers the same colour
as the primary quill feathers, and each is crossed towards the tip with a
broad white bar, and towards the base with two or three narrow irregular ones,
the inner vanes besides are variegated with oblique irregular white lines ; the
broad white bar towards the tip is freely variegated with numerous liver-brown