1 44 FALCONID^. 



Adult male (type of species). Similar to the female, but smaller. 

 Total length 11-5 inches, wing 7-15, tail 5-7, tarsus 2-1. 

 Hab. Madagascar. 



a. J ad. sk. Madagascar. South- African Museum. Type of species. 



8. Accipiter coUaris. 



Micronisus coUaris, Kaup, MS. in Mus. Brit., uncU 



Accipiter collaiis, Scl. Ibis, 1860, p. 148, pi. 6 ; Gray, Hand-l. B, i. 



p. 33 (1869) ; Scl. S,- Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 120 (1873). 

 Nisus collaris, Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 263 (1872). 



Immature. Above sooty brown ; the head blackish ; the sides of 

 the face and an ill-defined half-collar round the neck white, barred 

 with dark brown ; quiUs brown, barred with darker brown, more 

 distinct underneath, where the interspaces are whitish ; tail ashy 

 brown, crossed with five bars of dark brown, the under surface paler 

 and whitish ashy, the brown bars more distinct than above, except 

 on the outer web, where they are nearly obsolete ; throat white ; 

 rest of under surface white, broadly barred with brown somewhat 

 tinged with pale rufous, narrower on the under tail-coverts ; the 

 thighs almost uniform brown, with slight remains of whitish cross 

 bars. Total length 11"5 inches, culmen 1, wing 7'1, tail 5-2, 

 tarsus 2. 



Hab. New Granada. 



a. Ad. st. Bogota. Purchased. Type of species. 



9. Accipiter rubricollis. 



Nisus cirrhocephalus ceramensis, Schl. Mus, P.-B. Astures, p. 39 



(1862). 

 Accipiter rubricolUs, Wall. P. Z. S. 1863, pp. 19, 21, pi. iv. ; id. Ibis, 



1868, p. 7 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. I p. 34 (1869). 

 Nisus erythrauchen (pt.), Schl. Vog. Nederl. Ind., Valkv. pp. 22, 60, 



pi. 13. fig. 2 (1866) ; id. Rev. Accipitr. p. 78 (187.3). 

 Uraspiza erjrthrauchen (pt.), Kaup, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 177. 

 Nisus rubricollis, Giebel, Thes. Orn. p. 264 (1872). 



Young. Crown and sides of head blackish brown ; an indistinct 

 eyebrow and the cheeks white, streaked with brown ; upper surface 

 of body brown, with rufous margins to the feathers ; the hinder 

 neck mixed with white and washed with vinous red ; quills brown, 

 numerously barred with darker brown ; inner web rufescent from 

 the base upwards, and the outer web spotted with rufous, so as to 

 give the appearance of five bars across the wing ; tail ashy brown, 

 the tip lighter, crossed with ten bars of darker brovni, the lighter 

 brown interspaces shaded with rufous near the base ; under surface 

 of body creamy buff' ; the throat with a central streak of greyish 

 brown ; the breast longitudinally streaked with pale brown, more 

 narrowly on the lower breast, abdomen, and thighs ; under wiug- 



