124 FAlCONIDiE. 



intensity with age, Mr. Wallace's Accipiter mueJleri, being fuUy 

 adult, could not possibly be a specimen of A. grlselgularis which has 

 " lost the nape-band," as Professor Kaup suggests. 

 Hah. Batchian, Gilolo, and Ternate. 



a. $ ad. sk. Batchian. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



Type of species. 



H 



1 1- 



h. 2juT.sk. Batchian. A. R.Wallace, Esq. 



c. Imm. st. Batchian. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



d,e. 2 juv. sk. Gilolo. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



/. Juv. "sk. Gilolo. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



g. Imm. st. GUolo. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



h. S ad. sk. Ternate. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



i. (S juv. sk. Ternate. A. R. Wallace, Esq. 



Subsp. a. Astur henicogrammus. 



Astur henicogrammus, Gray, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 343. 



Accipiter equatorialis, Wall P. Z. S. 1865, p. 474 ; uL Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 10; Grai/, Hand-I. B. i. p. 34 (1869). 



Nisus cruentus, Schl. Tog. Nederl. Ind. Valkv. pi. 14. fig. 2 (1806). 



Erythrospiza griseogularis (pt.), Kaup, P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 175. 



Nisus equatoriaUs, Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 262 (1872). 

 Younq (type of ^. henicor/rammus). Above brown ; all the feathers 

 ban-ed and tipped with rufous, white at their bases and sometimes 

 barred across the middle with white ; the hinder part of the head 

 strongly inclining to slaty grey ; head dark brown, the feathers 

 having white bases and being sHghtly washed with rufous ; forehead, 

 a broad eyebrow, and sides of the face white, the latter strongly 

 streaked with dark brown ; entire wings and tail ashy brown, 

 banded with rufous like the back ; throat white, streaked down the 

 centre and spotted on the lower parts with dark brown ; rest of 

 under surface white, ban-ed on the chest with dusky brown tinged 

 with rufous, on the breast and abdomen with clear rufous ; under 

 wing-coverts ochraceous buff, spotted with dark brown tinged with 

 rufous. Total length 15 inches, culmen 1-1, wing 8-6, tail 7'8, 

 tarsus 2-6. 



Adidt. Above ashy, neck a little paler ; the wing-coverts darker 

 and more slaty ; the primaries externally shaded with ashy grey, 

 the secondaries entirely of the latter colour; the underside of 

 the quills clear whitish ash-colour, deepening into ashy brown 

 towards the tips of the feathers ; tail ashy grey, browner on the 

 inner webs, where there are remains of obsolete bars, the under 

 surface clear ashy ; back of the neck and upper part of interscapu- 

 lary region pale vinous salmon-colour ; sides of face and throat pale 

 ashy grey, with a slight salmon tinge on the latter : rest of under 

 surface, including the under ■\^•ing-coverts and axillaries, uniform 

 vinous salmon-colour ; cere, eyelids, and feet orange-yellow ; biLl 

 black ; iris golden orange-yellow. Total length 14-5 inches, cul- 

 men 1-2, wing 8-1, tail 6-8, tarsus 2-1. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but a little larger. Total 

 length 16-5 inches, Aving 9-1, tail 7-35, tarsus 2-35. 

 Hah. Molucca Islands. 



