APPENDIX 0. 169 



An adult o£ the large race^ apparenth' a femalej obtained 

 in Native Sikkim and sent to this country by Mr. Hume, 

 was described in ' Stray Feathers/ vol. viii. p. 440^ by Mr. 

 Sharpe in the following words : — 



" General colour brown^ with a bronzy gloss ; the feathers 

 of the back somewhat greyish on their edges ; head deep 

 slaty grey ; sides of face and ear-coverts chocolate-brown ; 

 the hinder part of the cheeks somewhat washed with tawny 

 where they adjoin the sides of the neck ; throat white^ with 

 a few ashy blackish feathers forming a streak down the 

 centre ; the cheeks also slightly streaked with ashy black ; 

 rest of under surface white ; the under tail-coverts entirely 

 so; the breast blotched with pale tawny rufous; in the 

 centre feathers these markings being in the form of broad 

 streaks^ in some of them broken up into bai's^ forming a 

 luiif orm surface on the sides of the upper breast ; the whole 

 of the breast, belly, and flanks barred with pale tawny rufous ; 

 the bars of about equal width ; under wing-coverts yellowish 

 white, spotted with brown, the greater series and axillaries 

 barred across with brown, resembling the inner lining of the 

 quills, which are yellowish white at base, greyish at tip, 

 crossed with distinct broad bars of darker brown; wing- 

 coverts above brown like the back ; quills light brown, barred 

 across with darker brown, the bars being six in number on 

 the primaries, not including the dark end of the feather ; 

 tail-feathers ashy brown, crossed with four broad blackish 

 bands, on the outermost feather seven, not counting the dark 

 ending to the feather. Total length 13*5 inches, culmen 

 0*95, wing 8"35, tail 6*8, tarsus 2*3, middle toe 1*55,^' 



Mr. Hume has given the following additional wing-mea- 

 surements of Himalayan examples of this race in ' Stray 

 Feathers,' vol. ix. p. 231, under the name of " Accipiter 

 gularis " : — 



in. in. 



Nine males 7-60 to 7-80 



Eight females 8-00 to 8-20 



The following are measurements of presumed females of 



