148 FALCONID.K. 



Ilah. Brazil and Bolivia. * 



a. c? ad. St. Brazil [?]. Purchased*. 



b. 5 juv. St. Brazil. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



c. (S juv. sk. Brazil. Purchased. 



d. § juv. sk. Bahia. Dr. Wucherer [C.]. 



e. (S juv. St, Bolivia. Rlr. Brydges [C.]. 



14. Accipiter chionogaster. 



Nisus chionogaster, Kaiip, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 41. 



Accipiter chionogaster, Bp. Rev. ct Maq. de Zoul. 1854, p. 5.38 ; Scl. 



8f Salv. Ex. Orn. pi. xiv. (1867) ; Gray, Handr-l. B. i. p. 32 (1809) ; 



Scl. 8f Salr. A'omencl. Av. Neotr. p. 120 (1873). 

 Accipiter erj'throcnemius, Scl. Sf Scdv. Ibis, 1859, p. 218 ; Salv. Ibis, 



1861, p. 140. 



Adult. Above dark brown, the liead blackish, the nape somewhat 

 mottled with white, concealed spots of which mark the scapulars 

 and inner secondaries ; quills brown, barred with darker brown, the 

 secondaries very slightly tipped with whitish, the shafts rufous 

 brown, under surface of wing whitish, inclining to greyish white 

 towards the tips, the dark brown bars very broad and distinct 

 underneath ; tail pale brown, inclining to whitish at the tips, crossed 

 with four bars of darker brown ; lores whitish ; sides of the face 

 white, with narrow lines of brown on the cheeks, the upper margin 

 of the ear-coverts and the sides of the neck dark brown ; under 

 surface of body white, with narrow shaft-streaks of dark brown ; 

 the thighs pale ochre, unstripcd ; under tail-coverts entirely white ; 

 under wing-coverts white, slightly tinged with fulvous, with narrow 

 brown shaft-streaks. Total length 11'5 inches, culmen 0*8, wing 

 7"3, tail 5-9, tarsus 2. 



Hah. From Guatemala to Venezuela. 



p. Ad. st. Caracas. Purchased. 



h. Ad. sk. Guatemala. W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. [P.]. 



15. Accipiter rufiventris. 



Accipiter rufiventris, Smith, S. Afr. Q. Journ. i. p. 231 (April 1830) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 29 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 32 (1850) ; id. Rev. 



et Mar/, de Zool. 1854, p. 538 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 29 (1867) ; 



Gray, Hund-l. B. i. p. 32 (1869) ; Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam. 



Ld. p. 32 (1872). 

 Falco exilis, Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 496 (May 1830). 

 Falco perspicillaris, Riipp. Neue Wirb. p. 41, pi. 18. fig. 2 (1835). 

 Dtedahon perspicillaris, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 11 (1845). 

 Accipiter exilis, Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 107 (1855) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1869, 



p. 242. 

 Nisus rufiventris. Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 48 (1858) ; Hetiql. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. p. 66 (1869) ; Schl. Miis. P.-B. Revue Accipiir. p. 69 



(1873)." 

 Accipiter perspicillaris, Heuyl. Ibis, 1861, p. 75. 

 Nisus fringillarius rufiventris, Scld. Mus. P.-B. Astures, p. 30 (1862). 



* Said to have been from Jamaica, collected by Gosse, but the register pro- 

 bably erroneous. 



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