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centre of the body and under tail-coverts unspotted, the breast with 

 large ovate blackish drops, the sides of the body broadly barred 

 with the same colour ; under wing-coverts iiniform white, with a 

 few large spots of blackish brown on the lower ones ; (juills brown 

 barred with darker brown, more distinctly below, where the feathers' 

 are white at the base of the inner web, shading into greyish to- 

 wards the tips ; tail brown above, tipped with ashy, greyish ash- 

 colour below, crossed with five bars of blackish brown, some of the 

 brown interspaces paler on the centre tail-feathers, but not exhi- 

 biting white spots, which seem peculiar to the adult. (Mus. Liuid ) 

 Hah. Giold Coast to Gaboon. 



a,h. S 9- ad. sk. River Danger, Gaboon. H. T. .\nsell, Esq. fP 1 



c. S juv. sk. Rirer Ogowe, Gaboon M. Bouvier [E.]. 



{Marche et de C'o7n- 



piegne). 



Obs. Professor Schlcgel, in his late ' Eevue ' (?. c), separates A 

 unduhventer homA.tachiro, uniting to the former the West-African 

 A. zonanus (vel maeroscelides). I cannot separate the North-east- 

 Afriean bird from the true A. tachiro ; but those from the Gold 

 Coast are alwa3's much brighter blue above and more uniform 

 rufous on the sides of the body, while those from Gaboon form a 

 still more intensified race. 



6. Astur toussenelii. (Plate VI. fig. 1.) 



Nisus toussenelii, Terr. Bev. et Mag. 1854, p. 538 ; /. S,- E. Verr J 

 f. O. 1855, p. 101 ; Ilartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 15 (1857) ; id. J. f. O. 

 18(31, p. 101. 



Accipiter toussenellii, StricJcl. Orn. Si/)i. p. 116 (1855); Cass Pr 

 Phil. Acad. 1859, p. 31 ; Buchaillu, Eg. Afr. p. 472 ( l861) ; Grav 

 Hand-l B. i. p. 32 (1869). -^ ■> r \ >^ y, 



Adxdt. Above blackish slate-colour, the head and neck clear slaty 

 blue, paler on the sides of the face ; throat white, the lower part 

 washed slightly with vinous ; rest of under surface, including the 

 thighs, deep vinous salmon-colour, with slight remains of whitish 

 cross bars on the breast ; the lower abdomen, vent, inner face of 

 thighs and under wing- and tail-coverts white ; quills slaty black 

 above, white at base of inner web, shading into ashy white towards 

 the tips of the feathers, crossed with a few blackish bars ; tail black, 

 tipped with white, greyish below, crossed with two bands of white', 

 which also appear irregularly on the upper surface of the middle' 

 feathers, where they occur on both webs. Total length 15 inches, 

 culmen 1, wing 8, tail 7, tarsus 2-5. 



Hah. Gaboon. 



a. Ad. St. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. Type of the species. 



7. Astur trinotatus. 



Accipiter trinotatus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 33 (1850, ex Temm. MS. in Mm 

 Lugd.); Strickl Orn. Sgn. ^t. 115 (1855); jrall. Ibis, 1868 n 8- 

 Oral/, Ha>id-l. B.i.ix M {]8m). >f ^ 



