140 FALCONID^. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but larger. Total length 10-5 

 inches, wing 6-6, tail 4-8, tarsus 1'8. 



Hab. From Guatemala and Veragua southwards throiighout 

 Guiana and Brazil. 



a. c? ad. St. South America. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



b. (S ad. St. South America. Pm-chased. 



5. Accipiter minullus. 



Le Minule, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 140, pi. 34 (1799). 



Falco minullus, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 88 (1800). 



Sparvius minullus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. x. p. 326 (1817). 



Nisus minullus, Cuv. Rhgne An. i. p. 321 (1817) ; Grill, Zool. An- 



teckn. p. 48 (1858) ; JTartl J.f. 0. 1861, p. 101 ; Schl. Mm. P.-B. 



Astures, p. 34 (l862) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 69 (1869); 



Finsch Sj- Hartl. Vog. Ostqfr. p. 85 (1870). 

 Accipiter minullus, Vig. Zool. Jotirn. i. p. 338 (1824) ; Smith, S. Afr. 



Q. Joiirn. i. p. 226 (1830) ; Gray, Gen. 2?. i. p. 29 (1849) ; Bp. Cansp. i . 



p. 32 (1850) ; Strickl. Orn. Sgn. p. 113 ( 1855); Gurney, Ibis, 1859, 



p. 242 ; Seugl. Ibis, 1861, p. 75 ; Scl. Ibis, 1804, p. 306 ; Gurney, 



Ibis, 1868, p. 144; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 33 (1869); Sharpe, 



F. Z. S. 1871, p. 134 ; Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 31 



(1872). 

 Hieraspiza minulla, Kawp, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 63, 

 Nisus satrapa, Lieht. Nomencl. Av. p. 4 (1854). 

 Nisus binotatus, Lieht. Nomencl. p. 4 (1854), 

 Accipiter polyzonoides, Bianc. Spec. Zool. Mosamb. XTiii. p. 318, 



tab. iii. (1867, nee Smith). 

 Teraspiza minulla, Kaup, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 171. 



Young. Above brown, with pale rufous edgings to the feathers, 

 the crown blackish ; wings browner than in the adult, the secon- 

 daries tipped with pale rufous barred with darker brown, more di- 

 stinct underneath, where the interspaces are rufous ochre ; tail 

 brown, whitish at tip, crossed with four bands of darker brown, the 

 interspaces light brown somewhat varied with whitish ; the under 

 surface of the tail rufous buff, with distinct cross bands more nume- 

 rous on the outer feather ; under surface of body huffy white, covered 

 with oval spots of dark brown, widening into bands on the flanks, 

 thighs, and under taU-coverts ; under wing-coverts deep ochre, 

 streaked and barred with dark brown ; the nape varied with white 

 and the upper tail-coverts white at base, as in adult ; iris yellow. 



Adult male. Above deep slaty black, the hind neck slightly mot- 

 tled with white ; sides of face and neck uniform with the crown ; the 

 upper tail-coverts white at base, the lower ones also conspicuously 

 tipped with white ; tail blackish brown, tipped with white, with two 

 faintly indicated bands of paler brown, the line of these cross bands 

 being indicated by two large spots of white on the inner web ; under 

 surface of tail paler brown, barred distinctly and tipped with white, 

 the outermost feather entirely ashy white, ^vith eight or nine bars of 

 dark brown ; under surface of body white, the sides bright chest- 

 nut, the lower throat and under tail-coverts indistinctly but the 

 breast plainly though narrowly barred with rufous, most of the bars 



