24 



Under Aving and tail-coverts whitish ; thighs 

 reddish white. 

 71e. Astur etorques j^^tlcJiellus Ramsay, Jul. Liim. 

 Soc.,xvi., p. 131(1881). 

 Ramsay's Goshawk. 



h. Above paler ashy grey ; croA\ii bluish ; tail 

 uniform ; below jDaler salmon colour, with 

 remains of white bars on breast, more numerous 

 on abdomen. 



72. Astur sylvestris (Wall.), P.Z.S., 1863, pp. 484, 

 487. 



Flores Goshawk. 



i. Above bluish grey ; tail with 5 or 6 blackish 

 bars ; below salmon rufous, with white cross 

 bars. 



73. Astur badius badius (Gmel.), S.N., i., p. 280 

 (1788). 



Ceylonese Shikra. 



Larger and lighter grey. 

 73a. Astur badius dussumieri Temm., PI. Col., Hat. 

 52, pi. 308 (1824) 

 Shikra 



Solomon Is. 

 (Cape Pitt, 

 Florida Is., 

 Guadalcanar, 

 Ysabel Is.) 



Lesser Sunda 

 Is. (Flores). 



Ceylon. 

 Travancore. 



Whole of 



Indian 



Peninsula. 



73b. 



73c. 



Above i^aler bluish ; beloAv 

 brighter vinous bands. 

 Astur badius poliopsis 

 Feathers, ii., 1874, p. 325. 

 Hume's Shikra. 



Avitli broader and 



(Hume), Stray 



Tail slightly longer and more barred. 

 Astur badius ceuchroides Severtz, Turkist. 

 Jevotn., p. 63 (1873). 

 Severtzow's Shikra. 



Burma, 



Assam, 



Cachar, 



Tenasserim, 



Siam, and 



Gambojato 



to Cochin 



China, 



Formosa. 



Central Asia 

 (Turkestan), 

 Baluchistan, 

 E. Persia and 

 Punjab, Sind 

 (winter). 



