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70. ACCIPITER RHODOGASTER RHODOGASTER (Schlegel). 



One adult male, Toemaratas, July 7, 1916; one adult female, 

 Parigi, September 19, 1916. 



The female is much darker above than the male ; the chest lighter ; 

 the bars on the outer rectrix, both above and below, much better 

 defined; and the difference in size between the sexes is remarkable. 

 They measure: Male — wing, 164; tail, 119; culmen from cere, 13.5; 

 female — wing, 210 ; tail, 151.5 ; culmen from cere, 16. 



71. TACHYSPIZA SOLOENSIS (Horsfield). 



One immature male, Kwandang, October 16, 1914; one immature 

 male, Kapas Bay, November 21, 1914; one adult male, Likoepang, 

 March 12, 1916. 



The adult male is very dark slate color above and vinaceous cin- 

 namon below and has the inner web of the outer tail-feather marked 

 with six bars, the last two bars reduced to spots; the majority of the 

 adult specimens of this species in the United States National 

 Museum collection have this feather unmarked or with only three or 

 four basal bars, except one adult male (No. 178,458) from Little 

 Nicobar, Nicobars, which is very much like the Celebes specimen 

 but has one less bar. It would appear as if the unbarred outer tail 

 feather is acquired only after several moults. 



72. SPILOSPIZA TRINOTATA TRINOTATA (Bonaparte). 



One immature male, Paleleh River, August 11, 1914; one adult 

 male, Kapas Bay, November 20, 1914; one adult male, Toemaratas, 

 July 3, 1916; one adult male, Teteamoet, January 25, 1916; one 

 immature female, Rano Lindoe, March 26, 1917; one adult male, 

 Pinedapa, February 21, 1918. 



The male from Teteamoet agi'ees with the description of Spilo- 

 spizias trinotatus haesitandus Hartert ^° described from Bontliain 

 Peak and would seem to discredit the form. It is lighter on the 

 back than any of the other specimens in the series before me, the 

 vinaceous-cinnamon confined almost exclusively to jugulum and 

 chest ; the breast, under tail-coverts, and thighs being white, faintly 

 tinged with buff on the upper breast. The Kapas Bay specimen is 

 darker below, with the crissum whitish; the Toemaratas bird still 

 darker below, but with the crissum whitish ; while the specimen from 

 Pinedapa is the darkest below of any with little or no whitish on the 

 crissum. From the above it would appear as if the southern race 

 was founded upon individual variation rather than geographic dif- 

 ferences. 



These little hawks seem common; I have several times seen them darting 

 through the open forest. — H. C. R. 



'<>Nov. Zool.. vol. 3. 1896, p. 162. 



