a 



22. ASTUR. Ill 



broader and brighter vinous bands than its near ally. Total length 

 11 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 7*3, tail 6-1, tarsus 1-95. 

 Hah. liurmah, Tenasserim, Siam, and Camboja ; Formosa, Hainan. 



Ad. St. Tenasserim. J. D. C. Packman, Esq. [P.]. 



h. S nd. sk. Camboja. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



c. S inim. sk. Bangkok {Conrad). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Subsp. y. Astur brevlpes. 



Astm- brevipes, Serertz. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. 3Ioscou, xxxiii. p. 234, 



tab. i.-iii. (1850). 

 Accipiter sphenm-us, Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. -390 {nee Hiijjp.). 

 Accipiter gui-neyi, liree, B. Eur. iv. p. 185 (18G.3). 

 Accipiter brevipes, Tristram, Ibis, 1805, p. 260 ; Schliiter, Zool. Gart. 



1869, p. .374 ; Elwes ^ Buckley, Ibis, 1870, p. 75 ; Sharpe 8) Dresser, 



B. Eur. pt. ix. (1871). 

 Micronisus Drevipes, Newt. Ibis, 1865, p. 342 ; Dresser, P. Z. S. 1871, 



p. 103. 

 Micronisus badius, De Filippi, Viayg. Pers. p. 345 (1865). 

 Accipiter badius, Alteon, Rev. et Maq. de Zool. 1807, p. 1. 

 Falco badius, Kriqyer, J.f. O. 1869,'p. 26. 



Young. Above ashy brown, the feathers margined with rufous, 

 especially distinct on the head, the scapulars with concealed white 

 spots, and the nape mottled with white ; a distinct superciliary line 

 and the sides of the face white, streaked with greyish brown ; throat 

 white, with a distinct black streak down the centre ; rest of under 

 surface of body white, with broad tear-shaped spots of rafous brown 

 on the breast, represented by oval spots of the same colour on the 

 flanks and by bars on the lower breast ; flanks bufiy white, with 

 numerous spear-shaped markings of pale rufous, less plentiful on 

 the abdomen, and diminishing in number on the under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries huffy white, the former spotted 

 and the latter barred with rufous brown ; quills dark brown, the 

 secondaries shaded with ashy and tipped with rufous, all the quills 

 ban-cd with darker brown on the inner web, more distinct under- 

 neath, where the interspaces are pale rufous ; tail ashy brown above, 

 whitish ashy below, tipped with rufous buff and crossed with five 

 blackish bars ; iris blackish brown. 



Adult male. Above blackish slate-colour on the back, the head 

 and lower back paler and more slaty grey, the scapulars with con- 

 cealed white spots ; wings uniform with the back, the wing-coverts 

 and secondaries washed with slaty grey, the primaries blackish 

 brown ; inner surface of wing greyish, wlu'te near the base of inner 

 webs, which have also a few dark bars more or less obsolete ; tail 

 slaty grey, paler at the tip, crossed with five bars of dark brown, 

 obsolete on the two middle and outer feathers, the under surface of 

 the tail paler and more ashy, with the cross bars more distinct ; 

 sides of face and neck pale ashy ; throat whitish ; breast white, 

 thickly crossed with bars of delicate salmon-colour, collecting on the 

 upper breast, which has a unifonn appearance, gradually becoming 

 less distinct on the abdomen and thighs and under wing-coverts ; 



