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63. 



Above browiiisli or slate ; tail with about 3 

 darker bamls ; beloAv white, barred with 

 riifous ; length, J, 13.5-14 ; $, 16-17 in. 



Astur tachiro tachiro (Daud.), Traite, ii., p. 90 S. E.Africa. 



(1800). 



African Goshawk. 



Below lighter ; cross bands more distinct ; no 

 bars on under wing-coverts. 

 63a. Astur tachiro S2)arsimfasciatus* Reichen., Orn. 

 Mb., iii., p. 97 (1895). 

 Zanzibar Goshawk. 



Zanzibar Is., 

 Brit. E. 

 Africa, 

 Victoria 

 Nyanza. 



Flanks and transverse bars more richly 

 riifescent. 

 63b. Astnr tachiro undulivenfer (Rupj^.), Neue Wirb., N.E. iVfrica 

 p. 40, t:i. 18, fig.i. (1835). (Abyssinia). 



Abyssinian Goshawk. 



Thighs rufous, without bars ; luider wing- 

 coverts white. 

 63c. Astur tachiro macroscelides Hartl., J.f.O., 

 1855, pp. 354, 360. 

 West African Goshawk. 



b. Above slaty grey ; below with breast rufous, 

 or partly so, and rest of under parts white, 

 barred with rufous. 



64. Astur trivirgatus trivirgatus (Temm.), PI. Col., 

 i., pi. 303 (1824). 

 Indian Crested Goshawk. 



Larger. 

 64a. Astur trivirgatus rufitinctas McClell., P.Z.S., 

 1839, p. 153. 

 Larger Crested Goshawk. 



W. Africa 

 (Gold Coast 

 to Sierra 

 Leone). 



Hilly parts 

 of India 

 and Ceylon, 

 Malay Archi- 

 pelago. 



E. Himalayas 

 to Assam, 

 Indo- 

 Chinese 

 coimtries, 

 Formosa 



* A. tachiro nyanscB Neumann, Om. Mb., xiii., p. 138 ( 1902) is a synonym, 

 cj. Sharpe, Zool. Rec, 1902, Aves, p, 45. 



