24. ACCIPITER. 147 



blackish brown, showing more distinctly underneath, where the 

 bases to the quills are white ; secondaries grey, like the back ; tail- 

 slaty grey, the cross bars almost obsolete, the under surface ashy 

 white, outer taU-feathers browner, the bars absent on the outer- 

 most ; cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of neck and breast vinous red, 

 gradually shading off into greyish on the flanks and thighs ; throat 

 and under taU-coverts whitish ; under wing-coverts white, the lower 

 ones with small blackish spots, the outer ones washed with greyish. 

 Total length 13 inches, culmen 1, wing 6-9, tail 5-8, tarsus 2-15, 

 middle toe (without claw) 1-3. (Mus. Lugd.) 

 Hab. Sula Islands. 



13. Accipiter erythrocnemis. 



Falconisus, Max. Beitr. Orn. Bras. iii. Abth. 1, p. Ill (1830). 

 Accipiter ervthrocnemis, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. Brit. Mm. p. 70 (1848) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. .32 (1850) ; Strickl. Orn. Syti. p. IIG (1855) ; Scl. 



P. Z. S. 1855, p. 134, et 1860, p. 70, et 1866, p. 303 ; Scl. ^- Salv. 



Ex. Orn. pi. xvii. { 1867 ) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 32 (1869) ; Scl. 



^ Salv. Nomencl. Av. Keotr. p. 120 (1873). 

 Nisus friugillarius, subsp. erythrocnemius, Kaup, Wiegm. Arch. Bd. i. 



p. 34 (1850). 

 Nisus erythrocnemius, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 64 ; Schl. Mun. 



P.-B. Bevue Accipitr. p. 70 ( 1873). 

 Nisus Striatus, Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 71 (1856). 



YoiDUf. Above brown, the head darker, all the feathers of the 

 wing-coverts and scapulars edged with pale rufous ; cheeks whitish, 

 tinged with rufous on the ear-coverts, the upper margins of which 

 are brown ; under surface of body white, barred across with pale 

 rufous, the shaft-lines distinctly indicated, and the rufous bars con- 

 terminously barred with dusky ; sides of body and thigh-feathers 

 pale rufous ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-covei'ts buiiy 

 white, with small bars of dusky brown, the axillaries pale rufous, 

 obscurely barred with dusky brown ; quills brown, barred wdth 

 darker brown, shafts rufescent, secondaries slightly tipped with 

 whitish ; tail ashy brown, paler at the tip, crossed with five bands 

 of darker brown. 



Adult (type of species). Above light slaty grey, the ear-coverts 

 coloured like the head ; cheeks white, narrowly streaked with dark 

 brown ; under surface of body white, with a few remains of dark 

 shaft-lines and dusky bars on the chest and sides of the body; 

 thighs bright chestnut ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing- 

 coverts also white, the lower ones barred with ashy brown ; quills 

 brown, secondaries washed with slaty grey, primaries barred Avith 

 blackish brown, more distinctly on the under surface of the wing, 

 where the interspaces are white or whitish ashy ; tail brown, slightly 

 tipped with whitish and crossed with four bars of ashy brown, the 

 corresponding bars being whitish ashy on the lower surface ; bill 

 blackish horn-colour, yellowish at base of lower mandible ; legs 

 yellow; claws horn-brown; iris yellow. Total length 11 inches, 

 culmen 0'75, wing 6-7, tail 5"7, tarsus 2. 



