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procedure in the female; but the male would appear to gain his 

 adult dress without the intervening varied stage just noticed. 

 Judging from a specimen collected in Eastern Timor by Mr. Wallace, 

 the plumage no sooner widens out from stripes to bars than they at 

 once merge, and the bird becomes rufous underneath very rapidly. 



Adult male. Above deep blackish slate-colour, the nape slightly 

 mottled with white, the crown and wiug-coverts a little darker ; 

 ([uills dark brown, shaded with slate-colour, without any bars above, 

 the uuder surface paler and more ashy, iuchning to pale rufous near 

 the base of inner web, with blackish cross bars ; tail ashy grey above, 

 whitish ashy beneath, paler at tip, and crossed with three bars of 

 slaty black; car-coverls and sides of neck slaty grey, the latter 

 washed with rufous ; fore part of cheeks and throat buffy white, 

 with a few indistinct^ blackish shaft-lines here and there ; rest of 

 under surface bright viuous chestnut, much paler on the thighs; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts rich 

 ochre, the lower ones and the axiUaries irregularly barred with 

 brownish ; cere yellow ; bill black, lead-colour at base ; feet pale 

 orange-yeUow ; iris yellow. Total length 11 inches, culmen 0-75, 

 wing 6-6, tail 5-1, tarsus 1-9. 



Adult female. A little larger than the male. Total length 

 13 inches, Aving 7"4, tarsus 2-2. 



Hah. Eastern Asia, from Northern China and Japan, throughout 

 the Indian peninsula and the Indo-Malayan subregion *. 



Etawah, N.W. India. Purchased. 



Madras. Dr. Jerdon [P.j. 



Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



Nepal. 



Malacca. 



Java. 



E. Timor. 



Philippine Islands. 



Philippine Islands. 



Cochin China. 



OS' coast of Cochin China, 



Nov. 11, 1871 (Conrad). 

 OS the Natima Islands^ 



Nov. 14, 1871 (Conrad). 

 China. 



Fokien, China. 

 Chefoo, China, May 1873. 

 Japan. 



B.' H. Hodgson,' Esq. [p!]. 

 A. R. Wallace, Esq. [Cj. 

 Hon. E. India Co. [P.J. 



A. R. Wallace, Esq 

 Hugh Cuming, Esq, 

 Hugh Cuming, Esq, 

 E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Pm-chased. 



J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 



R. Swinhoe, Esq. [C.]. 



Leiden Museum [P.]- 



Pm-chased. 



19. Accipiter guttatus. 



Esparvero pardo y goteado, Azara, Apunt. i. p. 113 (1802). 



Sparvius gvAXaius^ieill. N. Diet. x. p. 325 (]817). 



Accipiter guttatus, Strickl. Orn. Si/n. p. 110 (1855) ; Scl. Sr Salv. JSx: 



* A larger series of specimens mav ultimately prove the distinctness of Mr. 

 G urney"s Accipiter stevensoni. 



