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leraspizia (emendation) Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxvii, 1853, 810. 



lerospizia (emendation) Bonaparte, Bull. Soc. Linn. Normandie, ii, 1857, 29. 



Jeraspizia (emendation) Katjp, Archiv. fiir Naturg., 1850, i 34. 



Teraspiza (emendation) Katjp, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, 171. 



Terospiza (emendation) Giebel, Tliesaurus Orn., iii, 1877, 606. 



Teraspizias (emendation) Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xliv, extra No., 



1875, 62, 167. 

 Hieraspizias (emendation) Ridgway, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv., Bull. 2, 1876, 



92. 

 Tachyspiza Kaup, Classif. Saugeth. mid Vogel, 1844, 116. (Type, by original 



designation, .4. soloensis (Horsfield)) ; Mus. Senckenb., iii. Heft 3, 1845 



( = 1844), 259). 

 Lophospiza Katjp, Classif. Saugeth und Vogel, 1844, 118. (Type, by original 



designation, A. trivirgaius Reinw.) 

 Leucospiza Katjp, Classif. Saugeth und Vogel, 1844, 119. (Type, by original 



designation, A. novae-hollandiae (Gmelin).) 

 Nisastur Blyth, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., xiv, 1844, 35. (Type, by original desig- 

 nation, A. badius (Gmelin).) 

 Urospiza Katjp, Mus. Senckenb., iii, 1845, 259. (Type, by original designation, 



A. radiatus Temminck = ^. fasciatiis Vigors and Horsfield.) 

 Scelospiza Kaup, Isis, 1847, 173. (Type, by original designation, A. francescii A. 



Smith.) 

 Eunisus Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1854, 538. (Type, by subsp. designation 



(Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., liii, 1917, 590) A. sphenuriis Riippell.) 

 Lophospizias (emendation) Gtjrney, Ibis, 1875, 355. 

 Scelospizias (emendation) Gtirney, Ibis, 1875, 357. — Dubois, Syn. Avium, ii, 



fasc. 12, 1902, 840. 

 Sceleospizia (emendation) Kaup, in Jardine's Contr. Ornith., 1850, No. 3, 63. 

 Eryihospizia Kaup, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, 172. (Type, by first mention, 



Nisus trinotatus Schlegel.) 

 Lophospizia (emendation) Kaup, Isis, Jahrg. xli, heft 10, 1848, 774. 

 Tachyspizias (emendation) Dubois, Syn. Avium, ii, fasc. 12, 1902, 841. 

 Leucospizias (emendation) Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xii, 1878, 37. 

 Urospizias (emendation) Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xii, 1878, 37, 38. 

 Tachyspizia (emendation) Kaup, in Jardine's Contr. Ornith. 1849, Nos. 6 and 7 



(1850). 

 Uraspiza (emendation) Kaup, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867, 175. 

 Urospizia (emendation) Kaup, Isis, 1848, 772. 

 Eryihrospizins (emendation) Gurney, Ibis, 1875, 364. — Dubois, Syn. Avium, ii, 



fasc. 12, 1902, 841. 



Large to very small, slender, round- winged, long-tailed, slender- 

 legged Accipitridae (wing about 131-381 mm.) with three to five outer 

 primaries sinuated on the inner web (five in subgenera Accipiter and 

 Astur, three to four in subgenus Hieraspiza) ; tail from two-thirds as 

 long as wing to four-fifths as long; outer toe not extending beyond end 

 of second phalanx of middle toe (subgenus Accipiter) or extending 

 to the base of third phalanx of middle toe (subgenera Astur and 

 Hieraspiza) . 



Bill relatively short and deep, its depth at base equal to length 

 (chord) of culmen (subgenera Accipiter and Hieraspiza) or to about 



