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Mantle blackish slate ; below ])aler salmon 

 colour, inider wing-coverts distinctly barred. 

 73d Astur badins brevipes Severtz., Bull. Soc. Imp. 

 Nat., Moscou, xxxiii., p. 234, tab. i.-iii. (1850). 

 Levant Shikra. 



r3e. 



73f. 



74. 



75. 



Above clear bluish ashy, mider wing-coverts 

 buffy white, with faint dusky cross bars. 

 AsUir badius sphenurus (Riipp.), Neue Wirb., 

 p. 42 (1835). 

 Rtippell's Goshawk. 



Below with ninnerous distinct narrow bars of 



pale rufous ; under Aving-covcrts barred like 



breast. 



Astur badius polyzonides (Smith), 111. Zool. S. 



Afr.,pl.xi.(1838). 



Little Barred Goshawk. 



Central 

 Russia, 

 Dalmatia, 

 Greece, 

 Turkey, Asia 

 Minor, Persia, 

 Syria, Egypt. 



N.E. Africa, 

 Sudan to 

 Senegambia, 

 Sierra Leone, 

 Nigeria. 



S. Africa, N. 

 to Nyasaland. 



Tail with only one indistinct subterminal bar ; 



under Aving-coverts white. 



Astur butleri Gurney, Bull. B.O.C., vii., p. Car Nicobar 



xxvii. (1898). Is., Bay of 



Butler's Goshawk. Bengal. 



Tail Avith 5 bars ; body below, pale buffy 



vinous without bars. 



Astur soloensis soloensis (Lath.), Gen. Hist., i., China, S.in 



p. 209 (1821). winter to New 



Horsfield's GoshaAvk. Guinea. 



75a. 



76. 



Tail bars obsolete above. 

 Astur soloensis cuculoides Temm. 

 pi. 110, 129 (1823). 

 Chinese Goshawk. 



PI. Col. 



N. China, S. 

 in winter to 

 Malay 

 Archipelago. 



Head, neck and upper part of mantle light 

 greyish white ; rest of up]3er parts slate grey ; 

 tail uniform ; below vinous rusty red. 



Astur jmllidiceps (Salvad.), Orn. d, Papuasia, Bouru. 

 etc., i., p. 64 (1879). 

 White-headed Goshawk. 



