1 66 LIST OF DIURNAL BIRDS OF PREY. 



The figure of the female of A. gularis in the ' Fauna 

 Japonica' agrees with the adult female of A. stevensoni ; that 

 of the male is not altogether so satisfactory^ and the gular 

 stripe in both figures is too coarsely delineated; it is, how- 

 ever_, more accurately defined in the accompanying letterpress 

 as " une fine raie longitudinalej" and merely consists in the 

 adult birds of a few hair-like and inconspicuous streaks. In 

 the figure of the male the rufous colouring of the breast is 

 represented of a deeper hue than exists in the great majo- 

 rity of adult males, though I have seen three in which the 

 breast was more or less decidedly rufescent^ A third point 

 in which the figure of the male bird in the ' Fauna Japonica' 

 ajipears to me to be open to criticism is the very dark 

 colouring of the cross bars on the lower flank ; I do not 

 recollect to have observed this peculiarity in any of the 

 males that I have examined, the normal colouring of these 

 bars in the adult male being much paler than is represented 

 in the ' Fauna Japonica.' 



The publication of the description and plate of A. gularis in 

 the ' Fauna Japonica' took place, according to Mr. Sharpe's 

 Catalogue, in 1850 ; but three years earlier the late Mr. Blytli 

 had described a Hawk from Malacca under the name of 

 "Accijjiter nisoides/' respecting which he wrote thus in the 

 'Ibis' for 1865, p. 28: — "Accipiter {Nisus) gularis, Temm. 

 & Schl. (Fauna Japonica), is identical with Accipiter nisoides, 

 nobis, from the Malayan peninsula ; " and again, in a footnote 

 to p. 240 of the 'Ibis' for 1866, "I recognize in the figure 

 of the female A. gularis an exact representation of my 

 A. nisoides." 



In this footnote Mr. Blyth quoted his original description 

 of A. nisoides, which seems to me to bear out his view as to 

 its identity with A. gularis; and, if I am correct in this con- 

 clusion, the synonymy of the species will stand thus : — 



Accipiter nisoides, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 727 (1847). 



' These are a male from Cochin China and one from East Timor in the 

 British Museum, and the tj'pe oi ^' Accipiter stevensoni''^ from Pekin, in 

 the Norwich Museum. 



