22. ASTUR. 121 



brown shafts ; the secondaries leaden grey like the back, the quills 

 barred with darker brown, these bars showing more plainly under- 

 neath, where the lower surface of the wings is ashy white, inclining 

 to pure white near the base of inner web ; tail black, tipped with 

 whitish, and crossed with three narrow bars of clear ashy grey, a 

 Kttle nifescent near the shafts ; entire under surface, including the 

 under tail-coverts, pale grey, the throat and under wing-coverts 

 whiter, the shafts darker, showing a hair-like stripe. Total length 

 17 inches, culraen 0-85, wing 9-8, tail 7-8, tarsus 2-15, middle toe 

 1-4. (Mus. Lucjd.) 



Hah. Brazil. 



25. Astur pectoralis. 



Astur pectoralis, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1850, p. 490 ; Schl. Mus. 



P.-B. Astures, p. 18 (1862) ; 'Peh. Orn. Bras. pp. 6, 398 (1871); 



Schl. Reme Accipitr. p. G3 (1873). 

 Gooperastur pectoraUs, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 538. 

 Accipiter pectoralis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 33 (1869) ; Scl. 8f Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p.lSO (1873). 



Female, not quite adult. Above brown, vsdth tips of rather paler 

 brown to the feathers of the middle back, scapulars, and secondaries ; 

 the greater part of the wing-coverts, the interscapular region, and 

 the lower back, rumj), and upper tail-coverts black, with white tips ; 

 crown of head crested, pure black ; ear-coverts and sides of neck rich 

 rufous, forming a broad collar round the back of the latter ; feathers 

 below the eye and a faintly indicated moustachial streak black ; 

 throat white, a central streak and a few feathers on the lower part 

 black ; fore neck and chest rufous like the hind neck, the centre 

 varied with black and white ; rest of under surface white, with very 

 broad and distinct bars of jet-black on the flanks and thighs, smaller 

 and less distinct in the centre of the body ; under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries white like the breast, and similarly barred with black ; 

 quills brown, barred above with darker brown, the under surface 

 ashy white, with a few greyish black cross bars ; tail ashy brown, 

 with four broad black bars, equally distinct on the under surface, 

 which is ashy white ; bill horu-brown, yellowish at base ; feet yellow. 

 Total length 19 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 11, tail 8-5, tarsus 2-4. 

 {Mus. Lugd.) 



Hah. Brazil. 



26. Astur rufitorques. 



Epervier Oceanian, $ , Hombr. df Jacq. Voy. Pole Sml, Atlas, pi. 2. 



fig. 2 (1842-53). 

 Astur rufitorques, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp. p. 68, pi. 19 (1848) ; Hartl. 



Ibis, 1864, p. 232. 

 Accipiter rufitorques, Hombr. ^- Jacq. Voy. Pole Slid, Zool. iii. p. 49 



(1853) ; Cass. U. S. Eapl. Exp. p. 90, pi. 2. figs. 1, 2 (1858) ; Gray, 



B. Trop. Isl. Pacif. Ocean, p. 2 (1859); id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 34 



(1869). 



