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FALCONID^. 



longitudinal drops of pale mfous, taking the form of bars on the 

 sides of the body and flanks, but especially on the thighs, which are 

 plainly barred ; under wing- coverts buff, the upper ones streaked 

 and the lower ones barred with dark brown ; quills brown, barred 

 with darker brown, the secondaries tipped with buff; the tail ashy 

 brown, with five or six dark brown bands, nine on the outermost 

 feather ; the under surface of both quUls and tail-feathers buffy 

 white, the bands showing more distinctly ; cere yeUow ; bill bluish, 

 dusky at tip ; feet yellow ; iris pale yellow. 



Adult. Above bluish grey, the nape mottled with white, con- 

 cealed spots of which are also on the scapulars and secondaries ; the 

 latter bluish grey like the back, the primaries dusky black, barred 

 with deeper black, these bars showing more plainly on the under 

 surface, which is greyish white, tinged with buff near the base of 

 the inner webs ; tail ashy grey, tipped with white, crossed with six 

 blackish bars, more numerous but less distinct on the outermost 

 feather, and altogether obsolete on the two centre ones ; sides of 

 face ashy grey like the head, but paler ; throat white, with an in- 

 distinct dusky streak down the centre ; rest of the under surface 

 deep salmon-rufoiis, with narrow cross bars of white, the lower 

 abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts entirely white ; under wing- 

 coverts buffy white, with a few indistinct marks of brown on the 

 lower ones ; cere bright yellow ; feet dark buffy j'^ellow ; iris deep 

 orange. Total length 13-4 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 7*9, tail 6-3, 

 tarsus 2. 



Adult female. Similar to male, but larger. Total length 14-5 

 inches, wing 8*3, tarsus 2-15. 



Hah. The whole of the Indian peninsula and Ceylon, extending 



westwards into Scinde and Afghanistan. 



J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 

 Major-Gen. Hard wicke [P. 

 Maior-Gen. Hardwicke [P. 

 J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 Capt. Hayes Lloyd, [P.], 

 Sir W. ElUot [P.]. 



Subsp. /3. Astur poliopsis. 



Micronisus hadius, Sd. Ibis, 1864, p. 246 ; Sivitih. Ibis, 1870, p. 84 ; 



id. P. Z. .S'. 1871, p. 411. 

 Accipiter poliopsis, Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874. 



Adult. Very similar to A. hadius, which it replaces to the east- 

 ward of Bengal. Much paler blue above and below, banded with 



