24. ACCIPITER. 143 



./, k. 2 jiiv. sk. " The Depot, lat. Captain Stiu-t fP.! 



29° 40'." 

 /. $ jiiv. sk. " First Creek, lat. Captain Sturt TP. 1. 



30° 50', Dec. 



1844." 

 m. d' ad. sk. "The Depot, Vic- J. R. Elsey, Esq. [P.]. 



toria River,Oct. 



1855." 

 n. S ad. sk. Queensland. Purchased. 



o. Skeleton. Voyage of the ' Rattlesnake.' 



7. Accipiter madagascariensis. 



Accipiter madagascariensis, Verr. S. Afr. Q. Journ. ii. p. 282 (1834) ; 



Gray, Cat. Accipitr. p. 35 (1844) ; £p. Consp. i. p. 32 (1850) • 



Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 114 (1855) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 32 (1869). 

 Nisus madagascariensis, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 64. 

 Accipiter lantzii, Verr. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1806, p. 353, pi 18 • 



Grand, op. cit. 1867, p. 320. 

 Nisus lantzii, Schl 8,- Poll. Faun. Madag. Ois. p. 35, pi. 13 (1868) ; 



ScJd. Mils. P.-B. Revue Accipitr. p. 72 (1873), 



Young female. Above brown, with distinct ochraceous margins 

 to feathers of upper surface, inclining to rufous on the least wing- 

 coverts ; crown brown in centre, with rufous margins to the feathers ; 

 the superciliary line and the hind neck ochre, with a rufous tinge 

 and with brown centres to the feathers, causing a slightly streaked 

 appearance ; the nape mottled with white ; quills brown, barred 

 with darker brown, more distinct underneath, where the inner web 

 is whitish ashy at base ; secondaries brown, like the back, with 

 four distinct external bars, tipped with ochraceous buff and nar- 

 rowly margined with the same externally ; tail ashy brown, tipped 

 with whitish and crossed with six bars of darker brown, plainer on 

 under surface, which is ashy white ; ear-coverts rufescent ; cheeks 

 white, narrowly streaked with dark brown ; throat white, with a 

 few streaks of dark brown down the centre ; remainder of under 

 surface white, with broad oval drops of pale rufous brown on the 

 breast, rounder on the abdomen and thighs, and developing into 

 bars on the flanks ; under taU-coverts white, with a few irregular 

 brown spots ; under M'ing-coverts ochraceous white, with brown 

 spots like breast. Total length 13-8 inches, wing 8-7, tail 7-3 ; 

 tarsus 2-35 ; middle toe 1-65. (3hts. Lwjd.) 



Adult female. Above blackish brown, slightly washed with slate- 

 colour, the latter shade more distinct on the head and hind neck, 

 especially the latter ; car-coverts greyish black ; the lower margins, 

 as well as the cheeks, whitish, narrowly streaked with black ; quills 

 and tail perfectly uniform blackish brown above, with bars of whitish 

 ash-colour underneath, not very distinct, but plainer towards the base; 

 under surface of body white, thickly barred with greyish black ; the 

 under wing-coverts uniform with the breast ; a few narrow streaks 

 of greyish black on the throat ; under tail-coverts pure white ; tarsi 

 greenish yellow ; iris yellow. Total length 15 inches, culmen 0-95, 

 wing 8-8, tail 7-5, tarsus 2-4, middle toe 1 -7. {Mns^. Ltigd.) 



