114 FALCONID^. 



at tip, crossed with five bars of darker brown, nearly obsolete 

 towards the base of the centre feathers, but very distinct on the 

 under surface, which is whitish ; under surface of body whitish, 

 the throat indistinctly, but all the rest of the body plainly, crossed 

 with numerous bars of very pale rufous, narrower on the abdomen 

 and thighs ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts similar 

 to the breast ; bill blackish, base of upper mandible yellow, of lower 

 one bluish black ; feet yellow ; iris bright orange. Total length 

 13 inches, culmeu 0-8, wing 7-65, tail 6-1, tarsus 1-8. 

 Uab. South Africa. 



a. Ad. St. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. Type of species. 



b. Juv. St. South Africa. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



16. Astur soloensis. (Plate IV, fig. 1.) 



Falco soloensis, Lath. Gen. Hist. i. p. 209 (1821). 

 Dtedalion soloensis, Horsf. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 137 (1822). 

 Falco nisus (small \m:),'Ecrffl. Tr. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 278 (1822). 

 Accipiter soloensis, Vif/. Zool. Journ. i. p. 338 (1824) ; Grat/, Gen. B. 



i. p. 29 (1849) ; Str'ickl. Oni. Syn. p. 107 (1855) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 



1802, p. 315 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 186.3, p. 207. 

 Astur soloensis, Less. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 94 (1828). 

 Nisus cuculoides, Less. Man. iVOrn. i. p. 97 (1828) ; id. Traits, p. 61 



(1831). 

 Nisus minutus, Less. Traite, p. 60 (1831) ; Pucker. Rev. Zool. 1850, 



p. 210. 

 Tacliyspiza soloensis, Kaup, Classif. Stiug. u. Voe/. p. 117 (1844) ; id. 



Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 63; Bp. Rev. et Mag. d'e Zool. 1854, p. 538; 



I\:atip, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 172 ; Walden, tr. Z. S. viii. pp. 34, 110 



(1872). 

 Micronisus soloensis, Gray, Cut. Accipitr. B. M. p. 75 (1848) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 33 (1850) ; Horsf. ^ Moore, Cat. B. Mas. E. L Co. i. 



p. 38 (1854) ; Gray, P. Z. 8. 1860, p. 344 ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1863, 



p. 261 ; Peh. Reis. Novara, Vog. p. 12 (1865) ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, 



p. 12; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 35 (1869); Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, 



p. .342. 

 Micronisus badius, Swinh. Ibis, 1860, p. 359. 

 Accipiter virgatus, Swinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 264. 

 Nisus soloensis, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Astm-es, p. 44 (1862) ; Blyth, Ibis, 



1863, p. 16 ; Schl. Vog. Nederl. Ind., Valkv. pp. 28, m, pi. 19. figs. 



4-6 (1866) ; id. Revue Accipitr. p. 97 (1873). 



Youny. Above brown, with rufous edgings to the feathers, a little 

 broader on the upper tail-coverts, the sides of the neck washed with 

 rufous, the nape mottled with white ; crown blackish, an ill-defined 

 eyebrow and fore part of the cheeks white, narrowly lined with 

 blackish brown ; the ear-coverts brown, slightly washed with dull 

 rufous ; throat buffy white, with a moustachial line on each, and a 

 median streak of brown ; rest of under surface buffy white, the 

 chest broadly streaked and the breast and flanks barred with pale 

 rufous ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts clear buff, 

 the lowest ones spotted with blackish ; quills dark brown, slightly 

 tipped with whitish, very indistinctly barred above with darker 

 brown, underneath buffy white at the base of the inner web, in- 



