24. AcciPiTJ-R. 155 



four or five bars of black ; over the eye an indistinct line of deep 

 fulvous, streaked with blackish ; sides of face and under surface 

 rich fawn-colour, entirely uniform, the throat whitish, and the 

 upper inarg:in of ear-coverts brown ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries fawn-coloured, like the breast ; round the hind neck a collar 

 of rufous fawn. 



Adult male. Above deep slate-colour, the head blackish, the wing- 

 coverts a little darker than the back ; quills brown externally, 

 shaded with slaty grey, and barred with darker brown, more distinct 

 below, where the interspaces are ashy white, the innermost secon- 

 daries slaty grey, like the back ; tail ashy brown, shaded with slaty 

 grey and crossed with four black bars, the subterminal one ex- 

 tremely broad ; sides of face, sides of neck, and under surface of 

 body clear slaty blue, the thighs bright tawny rufous ; under tail- 

 coverts white ; under wing-coverts white, the outer margin rufous 

 along the carpal bend, the axillaries ashy grey. Total length 

 13'5 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 9'75, tail 7"3, tarsus 2-25. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but smaller, the tail crossed 

 with five bands, one concealed. Total length IT'o inches, wing 

 10, tail 8"6, tarsus 3. 



Hah. Southern Mexico, throughout Central America to Ecuador, 

 New Granada, and Guiana iu South America. 



22. Accipiter chilensis. 



Accipiter chilensis, Pkilijjjn u. Landh. Arch. f. Xaturg. 1864, p. 43 ; 

 Scl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 329; Scl. ^- Salv. Ex. Orn. pp. 73, 170, 

 pi. xxxvii. (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 33 (1869); Scl. Sf Salv. 

 Noinencl. At: Neotr. p. 120 (1873)^ 



Accipiter cooperi, Pelz. Heine Nov. Vog. p. 13 (1865). 



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



Young. Above brown, with distinct rufous margins, the head 

 blackish and the margins very distinct, the nape white, the hind 

 neck fulvous, the feathers broadly streaked down the centre with 

 brown ; quiUs brown, barred with darker brown, the secondaries tipped 

 and spotted with white, the latter markings concealed, the interspaces 

 ashy white below ; tail ashy brown, tipped with white and crossed 

 with six blackish bars, showing more distinctly on the under surface, 

 which is ashy white ; ear-coverts whitish, streaked with brown, the 

 hinder margin of the latter entirely brown ; under surface of body 

 creamy buff, with broad oval streaks of dark brown, more distinct on 

 the flanks ; thighs rufous, barred and spotted with dark brown ; 

 under wing-coverts rufous buff, the axillaries whitish, barred with 

 rufous brown. 



Adult female. Above dull brownish slate-colour, deeper and more 



