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FALCOXIDJJ. 



where the quills are white at the base of the inner web ; tail ashy 

 brown, paler at tip, crossed with four bands of dark brown ; throat 

 white, with a distinct black moustachial streak on each side and a 

 broad median line ; chest clear tawny I'ufous ; rest of under sur- 

 face white, broadly banded with pale rufous, each bar of this colour 

 having a conterminous brown bar, the thighs thickly barred with 

 ashy brown without any rufous tinge ; under tail-coverts white ; 

 under wing-coverts white, spotted with brown or rufous brown, and 

 the axillaries similarly barred ; cere orange-yellow ; bill black, lead- 

 colour at base ; cheeks and orbits orange ; feet yellow ; ii'is orange- 

 yeUow. Total length 14 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 7-8, tail 6-3, 

 tarsus 2*2. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male, but much larger. Total 

 length 18 inches, wing 9*7, tarsus 2-7. 



Rab. The hilly parts of India and Ceylon, not extending into the 

 North-west Provinces. Sumatra, Java, Southern Borneo, Philippine 

 Islands, and Formosa ; probably occurring in suitable localities 

 throughout the Indo-Chinese region, but not yet known further 

 eastward than Assam. 



Obs. The specimens from Nepal are much larger, and may prove 

 to be a distinct race, in which case they will bear the name of Astur 

 indicus. Professor Schlegel has already drawn attention to this 

 large form (' Astures,' p. 22, note), which he calls A. triinrgatus 

 indicus. The Museum specimens are, unfortunately, not sexed, so 

 that the exact comparison of the sexes cannot at present be insti- 

 tuted. They measure in the wing 10'6 inches. The Ceylonese 

 bird appears to agree with the Malayan form; and Mr. Swinhoe 

 says the same of the Formosan examples. 



a. Juv. sk. 



h, c, d. Ad. juv. st. 



e. Sternum. 



Large race (A. indicus). 



Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



""'""' Esq. [P. 



B. H. Hodgson, 



12. Astur griseiceps. 



Astur griseiceps, Schl. 3Iiis. P.-B. Astm-es, p. 23 (1862) ; Wall. Ibis, 

 1864, p. 184, pi. 5 ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. Ind. Valkv. pp. 19, 58, 

 pi. 11. figs. 1, 2 (1866) ; Wall. Ibis, 18G8, p. 6; Grat/, Mand-l. B. 

 i. p. 30 (1869) ; Schl. Revue Accipitr. p. 67 (1873). 



Lophospiza griseiceps, Kaup, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 178 ; Walden, Tr. Z. S. 

 viii. p. 33 (1872). 



Yomig. Above brown, the feathers with a purplish gloss and 

 slightly tipped with fulvous, the bases to the wing-coverts and sea- 



