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r. Above black, or blackish slate ; tail unbanded ; 

 below white, with or without slight grejash 

 shading or vermiculations on sides of chest. 

 Length, 9? about 18 in., q, about 14 in. 



83. Astur albigularis albigularis (Gray), Ann. N.H., 

 (4) v., p. 327 (1870). 

 White-throated Goshawk. 



Larger ; cheeks white ; below with some black 

 shaft streaks and cross bars [doubtful form]. 

 83a. Astur albigularis meyerianus Sharpe, Jnl. 

 Linn. Soc, xiii., p. 458, pi. xxii. (1877). 

 Mever's Goshawk. 



Solomon 



Islands 



(S. Christoval 



Ugi, Guadal- 



canar.) 



Jobi Is. N.W. 

 New Guinea, 

 Ceram-Laut. 



Tail with 4 whitish bands above ; cheeks and 

 ear-coverts black. 



84. Astur jardiyiei* Gurney, Ibis, 1887, p. 9G, pi. Brit. Guiana, 

 iii. 



Jardine's Goshawk. 



Above dark lead grey ; below pale grey. 



85. Astur poliogaster (Temm.), PI. Col., i., pi. 264 Brazil 

 (1824). (Ypanama), 

 Grey-bellied Goshawk. Paraguay 



C. With a well defined rufous neck band. 



a. Above brown ; crown black, crested ; tail 

 Avith 4 black bands ; below, chest rufous, rest 

 of under parts white barred with black. 



86. Asfiir pectoralis Bp., Rev. et Mag. de Zool., Brazil, 

 1850, p. 490. Guiana, 

 Red-collared Goshawk. Ecuador. 



b. Above brownish slate ; inner webs of tail- 

 feathers obscurely barred ; below, breast 

 rufous brown barred with slate, rest paler 

 barred with white. 



87. Astur natalis Lister, P.Z.S., 1888, p. 523. Christmas 

 Christmas Island Goshawk. Is. 



* If the later ascertained locality of this form, British Guiana, is correct 

 it must be a perfectly valid species, and can have little direct relationship 

 with A. a. albigularis. 



Dr. Hartert, who examined the description of Oustalet's Astur sharpei 

 (Bull. Soc. Philom. (6), xi., p. 25, 1875) with me, thinks it is merely an example 

 of A. albigularis albigularis, and I have therefore omitted it. 



