120 FALCONID^. 



and flanks, becoming fewer in number on the abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts ; thighs pale fawn, with dart-shaped bars of dark brown ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries also pale fawn, the former spotted, 

 the latter barred, with dark brown ; quills and tail brown, slightly 

 tipped with whitish, numerously barred with dark brown, more 

 conspicuously underneath, where the inner webs are of a pale fawn- 

 colour. 



Adult. Above deep blackish slate-colour, including the sides of 

 the head, neck, throat, and breast ; rest of the under surface white, 

 including the under wing- and tail-coverts ; inner face of the wing 

 and tail white, numerously barred with blackish, only seen above 

 indistinctly on the inner web ; bill black ; feet and iris yellow. 

 Total length 16 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 9-7, tail 7-6, tarsus 2-75. 



Hah. New Caledonia. 



a. 5 ad. New Caledonia. Purchased. 



h. is ad. New Caledonia. Purchased. 



c. (S juv. sk. New Caledonia. Purchased. 



23. Astur albigularis. 



Accipiter albogularis, Grai/, Ami. N. H. (i) v. p. 327 (1870) ; id. in 

 Brenchley, Cruise of the ' Curaqoa^ p. 354, pi. 1 (1873). 



Adult. Above black, including the lores and sides of the face and 

 of the neck ; quills and tail black, whitish at the base of the inner 

 web, shading into ashy grey towards the tips, the latter barred with 

 blackish on the median rectrices ; under surface entirely white, 

 shaded with greyish (apparently remains of vermiculations) on the 

 sides of the upper breast; under wing-coverts and axillaries white. 

 Total length 18 inches, culmen 1*35, wing 10, tail 8, tarsus 2'65. 



Hab. Solomon Islands. 



a. Ad. St. Rechei-che Bay, San Chris- Julius Brenchley, Esq. [P.]. 

 toval Island, Type of species. 



24. Astur poliogaster. 



Falco poliogaster, Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 264 (1824, ez Natterer, 



MS.). 

 Astur poliogaster, Vig. Zool. Journ. i. p. 338 (1824) ; G7-ay, Oen. B. 



i. p. 27 (1849) ; Strickl. Om. Syn. p. 121 (1865). 

 Nisus poliogaster, Less. Traite, p. (V2 (1831); Schl. Mus. P.-B. 



Astures, p. 43 (1862) ; id. Revue Acciptr. p. 96 (1873). 

 Asturina poliogastra, Kauji, Isis, 1847, p. 198, et Cotitr. Om. 1850, 



p. 67 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 30 (1850). 

 Cooperastui- poliogaster, Bp. Pev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 538. 

 Accipiter poliogaster. Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 33 (1869) ; Pelz. Om. Bras. 



p. 8 (1871). 



Adult male (type of species). Above dark leaden grey, the ear- 

 coverts and sides of the neck uniform with the crown, which is 

 slightly darker than the back, as also are the wing-coverts ; upper 

 tail-coverts tipped with clear ashy grey ; quills brown, with rufous 



