132 PALCONID*. 



0. Breast imiform grey. 



o'. Under -wing-coverts deep 



rufous pileatus, p. 153. 



p'. Under wing-coverts white . . 6«co/or, p. 154. 

 p. Breast spotted with white. . . . chilensis, p. 155. 

 e". Thighs black melanoleucus, p. 156. 



1. Accipiter nisus*. 



The Span-ow-Hawk, Albi'n, Nat. Hist. B. i. pi. 5 (1731). 

 L'Epei-vier, Briss. Om. i. p. 310 (1760) ; Buff. PI. Enl. i. pis. 412, 



467 (1788). 

 L'Epervier tachet^, Briss. Om. i. p. 314 (1760). 

 Le petit Epervier, Briss. Om. i. p. 315, pi. 30. fig. 1 (1760). 

 Falco nisus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 1-30 (1766) ; Naum. Vog. Detdschl. i. 



p. 258, Taf. 19, 20 (1822) ; Yarr. Brit. B. i. p. 62 (1843) ; Schl. u. 



Susetn. Voff. Eur. Taf. 29 (1839). 

 Falco minutus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 131 (1766, e.v Briss.). 

 Falco nisus major, BeJcke?; Teutsche Om. Heft iii. pis. 1, 2 (c. 1800). 

 Falco nisus minor, Bekker, Teutsche Om. Heft iii. pis. 3, 4, 5 



(c. 1800). 

 Dfedalion fringillarius, Savign. Ois. d'Egypte, p. 270 ( 1808). 

 Accipiter nisus, PaU. Zooqr. Posso-As. i. p. 370 (1811) ; G)-ai/, Gen. 



B. i. p. 29, pi. 10. fig. 4 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 32 (1850) ; Strickl. 



Om. Si/n. p. 104 (1855) ; Semts. Ec/ffs Brit. B. i. p. 35 (1856) ; 



Fritsch, Vog. Eur. tab. 4. figs. 3, 4, 5 (1858) ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 51 



(1862) ; Kewt. Ooth. WoUey. p. 79 (1864) ; Gould, B. Gt.Br. pt. v. 



(1865) ; Brodr. Falc. Jrti'.'pl. ii. (1865) ; DeqI. et Gerhe, Orn.Eitr. 



i. p. 99 (1867) ; Loch^, Expl. Sci. Ah/er. i. p. 72 (1867) ; Bettoyii, 



Ucc. Lomh. ii. tav. 58 (18r9) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 31 (1869) ; 



Hume, Pough Notes, i. p. 124 (1869) ; Newt. ed. Yarr. Brit. B. i. 



p. 88 (1871) ; Salvad. Faun. Pal. Ucc. p. 15 (1871) ; Sioinh. P. Z. S. 



1871, p. 341 ; Sharpe ^- Dresser, B. Eur. pt. ix. (1871) ; SJ)eUey, 



B. Egt/pt, p. 185 (1872) ; Hnne, Strai/ F. i. p. 124 (1873). 

 Jerax fringillarius. Leach, 8i/st. Cat. Mamm. Sj-c. Brit. Mm. p. 10 



(1816). 

 Sparvius nisus, Vieill. N. Diet. x. p. 319 (1817). 

 Accipiter frinsillarius, Vig. Zool. Joiim. i. p. 338 (1824) ; Gotdd, B. 



Eur. i. pi. 18 (1837). 

 Buteo nisus, Flem. Brit. An. i. p. 55 (1828). 

 Nisus communis, Less. Traite, p. 58 (1831). 

 Nisus elegans, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 86 (1831). 



* The present species will be found fully treated of in-Part ix. of Sharpe and 

 Dresser's ' Birds of Europe.' There I was inclined to consider Mr. Hume's 

 Accipiter melanoschistus a good species ; but a fiu*ther experience of Acx>ipi- 

 trine birds induces me to think that it may be only a dark race of the ordinary 

 Sparrow- Hawk. I say this under reserve, as I have not yet seen a specimen 

 labelled by Mr. Hume himself and only judge by examples in the British Mu- 

 seum andLord Walden's collection. At present, also, I believe Hodgson's A. 

 suhtypicus to be only a common Sparrow-Hawk. Should Mr. Hume's bird be 

 distinct, the synonymy will be as follows : — 



Accipiter melanoschistus. 



Accipiter meJanoschistus, Htime, Ibis, 1869, p. 356 ; id. Rough Notes, i. 

 p. 128 (1869) ; Sharpe 4' Dresser, B. Eur. pt. ix. (A. nisus), p. 16 (1871). 

 Isisua melanoschistus, Giebel, Thes. Om. p. 263 (1872). 



