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Smith, Andrew, 1829. Dr. Smith’s papers on natural history (continued from the ‘Advertiser’ of May 13th). South African Commercial Advertiser 4 (no. 205) - 30 May 1829: 2, column 4
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Dr. Smith’s papers on natural history (continued from the ‘Advertiser’ of May 13th). South African Commercial Advertiser, 30 May 1829, vol. 4, no. 205, p.2 column 4.
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DR. SMITH’S PAPERS ON NATURAL HISTORY
(Continued from the Advertiser of May 13).
ACCIPITER. Mihi. –
Front, crown, neck, interscapulars, back, upper tail coverts, and shoulders a dull brown; some of the feathers of nape white towards the quills, thereby giving to the back of the neck a little variegated appearance; primary and secondary wing coverts dark dusky brown; primary quill feathers brown, with
their inner vanes more or less banded by white; secondaries the same; tail light brown, crossed by three distinct dark blackish brown bands; tips of all the feathers reddish white; chin, throat, breast, belly, and thighs white, the three latter marked with transverse brownish lines, which are very numerous on the
latter as well as on the flanks; legs and toes yellow; cere dusky yellow; bill and claws dark horn colored. Length of bird seventeen inches. Inhabits the northeastern parts of the Colony.
FALCO RUPICOLOIDES. Mihi. –
Front crown and corvex light tawny, with numerous longitudinal narrow black streaks; interscapulars, back, shoulders, and scapulars a darker tawny, with large transverse waved brownish bands; tips of feathers light tawny; primary and secondary wing coverts alternately banded tawny and brown, tips tawny white; primary quill feathers brown, excepting a considerable portion of the inner vanes, each of which is tawny or white; secondaries in color like the coverts; tail rounded with numerous transverse bands of blackish brown and more or less pure white; chin, throat, and thighs plain tawny; breast and belly the same, with longitudinal black streaks, except on the flanks where they are transverse; legs, toes, and cere yellow; claws dark horn colored; base of upper mandible greenish blue, tip dark horn colored, base of lower yellowish; apex dusky. Length of bird about fifteen inches. Inhabits little Namaqualand.
CIRCUS SUPERCILIARIS. Mihi. –
Upper parts dirty brown; many of the feathers tipped with reddish white, particularly those of the shoulders; primary and secondary wing coverts, as well as primary and secondary quill feathers, brown, tipped with reddish white; upper tail coverts partly white and partly brown; tail rounded and of a brown color,with each feather crossed towards its middle by two transverse white bands, in addition to a whitish base and apex; front white, with a distinct line of a similar color extending from it over each eye, and another, though less extensive, below the orbit; cheeks dark brown, and immediately behind them a complete collar of erect clear reddish white feathers; under parts tawny white; eyes dark brown; legs and toes yellowish; claws dark horn colored: cere yellow; bill nearly black. Length of bird sixteen inches. Inhabits Little Namaqualand, and the country about the Oliphant’s River. Probably a young bird in its first or second plumage. – –
(To be continued.)
Rookmaaker 2016, p. 18, no. 53
Rookmaaker, L.C., 2016. The zoological contributions of Andrew Smith (1797–1872) with an annotated bibliography and a numerical analysis of newly described animal species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 72 (2): 105-173 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2016.1230078
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