22. ABTUR. 107 



pulars conspicuously white, the head and hiud neck also washed 

 with rufous and much varied with white ; quills dark brown, the 

 secondaries paler, banded with blackish brown, a little more distinct 

 on the under surface, where the feathers are white at their base, 

 shading into ashy brown towards the tips ; tail brown, barred with 

 darker brown, tipped with whitish, the bars on the outer tail- 

 feathers obsolete ; under surface of tail whitish ashy, the cross bars 

 very distinct, except on the outer feathers ; sides of face rufous 

 brown, darkest on upper margin of ear-coverts ; under surface of 

 body creamy white, the throat with a broad line of black down the 

 centre and another running along the lower margin of each cheek, 

 but not so distinct as the central one, the breast sparsely marked 

 with oval spots of pale rufous, brown in the centre ; the thighs 

 scantily marked with tiny spots of brown ; under wing- and taU- 

 coverts white, the former with a wash of pale fawn. 



Mature. Above brown, the head and a shght occipital crest of the 

 same colour, the upper tail-coverts tipped with white ; quills brown, 

 banded with darker brown, the under surface whitish ashy, the 

 bands showiag more distinctly ; tail pale brown above, whitish grey 

 beneath, tipped with whitish, crossed with four bands of blackish 

 brown ; under surface of body white, with two moustachial and one 

 central streak of blackish, as in the young bird, the breast streaked 

 with broad oval drops of pale rufous, collecting on the sides of the 

 breast and giving a clouded appearance to this part; the flanks 

 and thighs barred with dull rufous brown ; the imder wing- and 

 tail-coverts white, the former tinged with pale fawn. 



Achdt. General plumage brown, like the foregoing, but having 

 the whole head slaty grey ; the bars on the wings and tail not so 

 broad or distinct, the basal one of the latter nearly obsolete ; the 

 gular and moustachial streaks slaty black; rest of under surface 

 white, marked with broad streaks of brown, the thighs rather nar- 

 rowly but distinctly barred with blackish; cere and orbits lead- 

 colour, tinged with yeUow ; biU black, lead-colour at base ; feet 

 lemon yellow ; iris golden orange. Total length 15-5 ijiches, cul- 

 men 1'2, wing 8*1, taU 6'8, tarsus 2-25. 



Hub. Celebes. 



a, b. S 9- ju'^' sk. Celebes. J. Gould, Esq. 



c. 5 ad. sk. Tondano, Celebes. A. R. WaUace, Esq. 



d. 5 ad St. Menado, Celebes. A. E. Wallace, Esq. 



e. Juv. St. Menado, Celebes. A. R. WaUace, Esq. 

 /. (S ad. sk. Makassar, A. R. WaUace, Esq. 



13. Astur brutus. 



C.] 



c. 



Nisus brutus, Poll. Nederl Tijdschr. iii. p. 80 (1866) ; Schl. S,- Poll. 



Faun. Madaff. Ois. p. 38, pi. 12. fig. 2 (1868) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. 



Revue Accipitr. p. 95 (1873). 

 Micronisus brutus, Gi-ay, Hand-l. B. i. p. 35 (1869). 

 Accipiter brutus, Gm-ney, Ibis, 1869, p. 448. 



Adult male. Above brownish ash-colour, the nape varied with 



