22. .vsruit. 115 



distinctly barred with dark browu, visible only on the inner webs ; 

 tail ashy brown, whitish at tip, crossed wth five bars of darker 

 brown, the under surface whitish ashy, the cross bars more distinct, 

 except on the outer web, where they are almost obsolete. 



Adult. The adult plumage appears to be gained by a gradual 

 mersion of the rufous stripes on the breast. Above light bluish 

 grey, some of the feathers margined with darker grey ; sides of face 

 and neck grey like the head, but a little more dingy ; under surface 

 of the body pale huffy vinous, the throat, flanks, and thighs, as well 

 as the under wing- and tail-coverts, white, with a slight greyish 

 shade on the sides of the breast ; quills black externally, shaded 

 with ashy grey, under surface white at base of inner web, but 

 having no distinct bars above or below ; tail dull bluish grey above, 

 ashy white beneath, with four or five indistinct cross bauds of dai'k 

 brown, a little plainer underneath, but these not strictly continuous ; 

 cere yellow ; gape and orbits yellowish ; bill black, lead-colour at 

 base ; feet yellow ; iris yellow. Total length 11-8 inches, culmen 

 0-75, wing 7'9, tail 5-4, tarsus 1'9. 



065. A specimen from the Philippines, nearly adult in every re- 

 spect, is much deeper slate-colour above, and far more ruddy and 

 vinous below, than the one described. 



Rab. China, from Pekin southwards throughout the Malayan 

 peninsula and the archipelago generally to New Guinea. 



rt. <? ad. sk. Java. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



b. (? juv. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 



c. 2 i^^^- sk- Sumatra. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 0. 



d. S JUV. sk. Batchian. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 'G. 



e. (J ad. sk. New Guinea. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 

 /. Imm. St. Java. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 

 g. Ad. St. Philippine Islands. Hugh Cuming, Esq. [0.]. 

 'h. Ad. St. 



i. (S ad. sk. Pescadores, April 18G6. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



k, I. 5 ad. sk. Amoy, April 20, 1867. R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.J. 



m. Skeleton. Purchased, 



17. Astur cuculoides. (Plate lY. fig. 2.) 



Falco cuculoides, Temm. PI. Col i. pis. 110, 129 (1823), 

 Nisus cuculoides, Less. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 97 (1828^ ; id. Trade, p. 61 

 (1831). 



Adidt. Above light slaty grey, the margins to the feathers rather 

 darker, the ear-coverts and sides of neck a little paler than the 

 upper surface ; lores slightly whitish ; under surface of body very 

 pale vinous, somewhat tinged with ashy on sides of breast and 

 throat, the latter being otherwise whitish ; lower flanks, abdomen, 

 under taU-coverts, and thighs white, the latter indistinctly dusted 

 with ashy ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white ; upper 

 wing-coverts slaty grey like back ; quiUs blackish, shaded above 

 with slaty grey, lower surface of primaries black, all the quills 

 white at base of inner web, more extended on the secondaries, which 

 are ashy grey towards the tips ; tail deep slatv grey, nearly uniform 



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