22. ASTTJR. 



125 



a. 



sk. 



h. 2 ad. sk. 



r, d. S ? ad. sk. 

 e. 5 ad. St. 





c? imm. sk. 

 2 juv. sk. 



h. Ad. St. 



E. Gilolo. 



Gilolo. 



Morty Island. 



Batchian. 



Waigiou. 



Waipiou. 



Salwatti. 



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Obs. This race or subspecies very closely resembles A. griseigu- 

 laris, but is much smaller. The young bird is quite different, re- 



calling rather that of A. trinotatus. 



28. Astur torquatus. 



Falco torquatus, Temni. PL Col. i. pi. 43 (1823). 



Urospizia torquatus, Kaup, Contr. Oni. 1850, p. 64 ; Up. Rev. et Mag. 



de Zool. 1854, p. 538. 

 Nisus torquatus, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Astui-es, p. 40 (1862); id. Vog. 



Nederl. Ind., Valkv. pp. 25, 63, pi. 17. figs. 1, 2, 4 (1866) ; id. Remie 



Accipitr. p. 91 (1873). 

 Accipiter cruentus. Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 22. 

 Uraspiza torquata, Kaup, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 176. 

 Accipiter torquatus, IVall. Ibis, 1868, p. 11 ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 34 (1809). 



Adult. Above greyish brown ; the head and wing-eoverts clearer 

 slate-colour ; nape mottled with white ; hinder part of neck brick- 

 red, shading even over the interscapulaiy region and sr-apulars ; 

 quills dark brown, shaded externally witli slaty grey, the secondaries 

 more conspicuously ; the under surface of the quills paler, whitish 

 near the base, shading into clearer ashy towards the tips, with 

 several indistinct bars of dark brown on the inner web ; tail ashy 

 brown, slightly rufescent above, with twelve or thirteen cross bands 

 of darker brown, more distinct underneath, where the colour is pale 

 ashy, tinged with light rufous near the base ; the outermost feather 

 almost unifbi-m ashy, the bars obsolete ; sides of face ashy grey, a 

 little clearer than the crown ; throat whitish, freckled with remains 

 of greyish cross bars ; under surface of body white, distinctly barred 

 with clear pale rufous, the bars decreasing in width towards the 

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

 white, the inner ones narrowly baiTed with pale rufous ; cere 

 greenish yellow ; bill lead-colour ; feet orange-yellow ; iris orange- 

 yellow. "^Total length 17 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 10-4, tail 8-2, 

 tarsus 2"65. 



Hob. Timor. 



a. S ad. sk. 

 h. 2 ad. sk. 

 c, d, e. 2 juv. sk. 

 /. 2 ad. St 

 g. S juv. St. 



East Timor. 

 East Timor. 

 East Timor. 

 East Timor. 

 East Timor. 



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