24. ACCIPITEK. 151 



Accipiter dussiimieri (iiec Temm.), Si/kes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 79; 



Hodffs. J. A. S. B. xii. p. 308 (1843). 

 Nisus manillensis, Meyen, Beitr. p. 094, Taf. ix. (1834) *. 

 Accipiter besra, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 84 (1839) ; id. III. Ind. Orn, 



pi. 4 (1847). 

 Accipiter fringillarius, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 84 (1839). 

 Accipiter minutus, Blijth, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 882 (1842). 

 Accipiter affinis, Hodqs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844). 

 Accipiter nisoides, Blyth, J. A.^S. B. xvi. p. 727 (1847); id. Cat. B. 



3Ius. A. S. B. p. 22 (1849) ; id. Ibis, I860, p. 28, et 1866, p. 240, 



et 1870, p. 158. 

 Hieraspiza virgatus, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 03. 

 Astur gularis, Tenim. ^- Schl. Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 5, pi. 2 (1850). 

 Accipiter gularis, Bp. Rev. et Muij. de Zool. 1854, p. 538 ; Gurney, 



Ibis, 1865, p. 547 ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 342. 

 Micronisus badius, Sxuinh. Ibis, 1860, p. 359, et 1861, p. 263. 

 Micronisus, sp., Swinh. Ibis, 1861, p. 25. 

 Micronisus gularis, Swinh. Ibis, 1863, p. 212. 

 Accipiter stevensoni, Gurnei/, Ibis, 1863, p. 447, pi. xi. ; Sivinh. 



P. Z. S. 1863, p. 261, et 1870, p. 600, et 1871, p. 341 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 32 (1869). 

 Accipiter gularis, Sicinh. Bits, 1863, p. 89. 

 Micronisus virgatus, Swinh. Ibis, 1806, p. 403. 

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



Yoimg. Above brown, the feathers margined with rufous or 

 rufous ochi'e, the crown blackish brown, the nape mixed with 

 white and the scapulars and upper tail-coverts with concealed white 

 spots ; over the eye a streak of white narrowly lined with dark 

 brown ; sides of the face and neck white, streaked with dark brown, 

 the latter washed with rufous ; ear-coverts pale brown, darker on 

 their hinder margin ; under sui'face of body white, the throat with 

 a distinct line of blackish down the centre, the chest streaked with 

 dark brown in the centre and with pale rixfous on the sides, the 

 breast and abdomen marked with heart-shaped spots of pale rufous, 

 developing into bars on the thighs ; under tail-coverts white ; under 

 wing-coverts huffy white, the lesser ones streaked, the greater ones 

 spotted with dark brown ; quills brown, the secondaries margined 

 with rufous ochre, barred with darker brown, more distinct under- 

 neath, where the feathers are huffy white, shading into ashy brown 

 at the tips ; tail ashy brown, tipped with whitish and crossed with 

 four bands of darker brown, the under surface ashy white, all the 

 bars very plain, the outer tail-feather having seven. 



Obs. Ey the gradual spreading of the streaks until they assume 

 the form of bands, the next plumage is very different from the 

 young stage just described, especially as the light rufous streaks on 

 the side of the chest merge entirety, and present a thoroughly uni- 

 form appearance, as do also the sides of the face and neck. From 

 this stage the under surface gradually becomes uniform bright 

 rufous without any change of feather, the whi*e interspaces on the 

 breast gradually disappearing. This seems to be the usual mode of 



* I have examined the Ivpe in the Berlin Musenni. 



