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? jnv. No-Tai, October 1902 (No. 237). 



3 ? ? ad. f'lieteriang, Jaimary 1004 (No. 237). 



8 (J<J ad., 3 jiiv. ; 3 ?? ad., 2 jiiv. Mt. AViiclii, November, December 190.5 

 (No. 237). 



This benntiful series agrees very well with the Burmese (and Assamese !) race : 

 A. badius poliopsis. Perhaps the cheeks and sides of the head are still darker, 

 more slaty grey, bnt I dare uot se|)arato them at present. They are widely 

 different from .1. bai/i/ts b<tilii(s from <'t'yloii, which is much smaller and darker. 



1 am at present acquainted with the following races of this pretty little hawk : 



1. Accipiter badiiis badius (Gm.) : Ceylon and S. India. — Very small and 

 rather dark grey above ! 



2. A. badius ceiichroides (Sev.) : Turkestan, Baluchistan, E. Persia, and Punjab, 

 Sind (? winter). — A very pale race. 



3. A. badius breeipes (Sev.) : S.E. Euro()e, Mountains (Achal Tekke) of 

 Transcaspia, Asia Minor, Persia, Palestine. — The adult male of this race is always 

 recognisable by the ashy grey instead of creamy bnft" inner edges to the inner webs 

 of the remiges and the distinctly barred under wing-coverts. 



4. A. badius poliopsis (Hume) : Similar to A. badius badius, but considerably 

 larger, with the sides of the head darker, more slaty. — Burma and Tenasserim ; also 

 the Assam and Cachar specimens belong to this form ; I think also those from 

 Hainan must be united with .4. b. poliopsis, though our tine series of well-prepared 

 skins shows the dark sides of the head still more clearly. 



[In nsing the name Accipiter (Schaeffer) for this species I do not mean to 

 emphasise that A. badius does not belong to As/ur, but that Astur and Accipiter 

 are inseparable.] 



111. Accipiter nisus subspec, ? 



Cf. Grant, F. Z. S. lyOO. p. 490.— (Central Haiuan, Swiahoe). 



? Mt. Wuchi, 1. xi. 1905 (No. 93). 



This example appears to be a juvenile bird, and it is therefore difficult to say 

 to which race it belongs. It is rather ])ale on the whole, and I think it must 

 belong to the pale race \\a,min\ pallens by Stejueger, unless there are more than one 

 paler snbspecies in the East. The feathers on the head, hlndneck and upper mantle 

 are, however, rather dark, with pale edges. 



Our examples of A. n. melanoschistus are very different, but we have none in 

 the same plumage as that of the Hainan Sparrowhawk. 



112. Accipiter soloensis (llorsf.). 



Accipiter aoloeiish Uorsfield, Trans. Linn. 6oc. Land. xiii. p. 137(1821 — Java). 



Nisus manilensis Mejen, Beilr. ZooL, ia Verh, Leup. Car. Akad. viil. Suppl., Zmil. p. G9, Tab. ix. 

 (1834— Manila !). 



2 SS juv. Mt. Wuchi, November 1905 (No. 278). 

 Not previously recorded from Haiuan. 



It will be noticed that I have placed, entirely against tradition dating from 

 1874, among the synonyms of A. soloensis the JVisus manilensis of Meyen. When 

 looking at Meyen's plate and description, it occurred to me at once, that the name 

 manilensis could not possibly refer to the bird hitherto called manilensis, which is 



