156 FALCONID^. 



blackish on the head, paler and clearer slaty grey on the sides of 

 face and neck and hinder neck ; quills brown, barred with darker 

 brown, showing very distinctly underneath, where the interspaces 

 are ashy white; tail ashy brown, slightly tipped with white and 

 crossed with six black bars, the basal one concealed and indistinct, 

 the under surface of tail ashy white, the cross bars very distinct ; 

 throat whitish, streaked and mottled with ashy brown spots ; rest 

 of under surface ashy grey with large white spots forming bars on 

 some of the feathers, these spots mostly margined conterminously 

 with brownish ; the breast more or less shaded with rufous, the ab- 

 domen distinctly banded ; thighs rich tawny rufous ; under tail- 

 coverts pure white ; under wing-coverts rufous, mottled with brown 

 spots ; the axillaries rufous, barred with white, with brown margins 

 like the breast-feathers. Total length 18 inches, culmen 1-2, wing 

 9-9, tail 8-2, tarsus 3-9. 



Adult male. Smaller than the female. Total length 15-8 inches, 

 wing 8-5, tail 7"8, tarsus 2-5. 



Hah. Chili. 



a. 2 ad. St. Straits of Magellan (King). Zoological Society. 



h. S jwv. sk. Straits of Magellan {King). The Admiralty. 



c. $ juv. sk. Chili. The Admiralty. 



J. $ad. sk. Chili. Mr. Brydges [C". 



e. S juv. sk. Chili. Mr. Brydges [C.I. 



f, 9- 6 2 \^'^- ^^- Santiago, Chili. E. C. Reed, Esq. [C. 

 Vt.cJad.sk. Santiago, Chili. E. C. Reed, Esq. [C. 



23. Accipiter melanoleucus. 



Accipiter melanoleucus, Smith, S. Afr. Q. Journ. i. p. 229 (1830). 

 Astur smithii, Kaup, Ms, 1847, p. 196; id. Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 66. 

 Astur melanoleucus. Smith, 111. S. Afr. Zool. pi. 18(1849); Grag, 



Gen. B. i. p. 27 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 31 (1850) ; Strickl. Orn. 



Sgn. p. 121 (1855) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. pp. 11, 269 (1857) ; Schl. 



3Ius. P.-B. Astures, p. 15 (1862) ; Lciyard, B. S. Afr. p. 27 (1867); 



Heuql. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 60 (1869) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 29 



(1869). 

 Astur apoxypterus, Liclit. Noniencl. p. 4 (1854). 

 Astur hypoxauthus, Licht. t. c. p. 4 (1854). 

 Astur teniminckii, Hartl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 353 (ex Pel, MS.). 

 Nisus verreauxii, Schl. 3Ius. P.-B. Astm-es, p. 37 (1862). 

 Astur verreauxii, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 29 (1869). 

 Nisus melanoleucus, Schl. Mm. P.-B. Revue Accipitr. p. 74 (1873). 



Yoimq. Above brown, with narrow fulvous edgings to the feathers, 

 the scapulars and wing-coverts showing large marks of white near 

 their bases ; head and neck fulvous washed with rufous and longi- 

 tudinally streaked with dark brown ; greater wing- and upper tail- 

 coverts broadly tipped with whitish buif or pale rufous ; quills dark 

 brown, the secondaries tipped with fulvous, indistinctly barred with 

 blackish brown above, under surface fulvous, barred with dark 

 browii, the fulvous interspaces sometimes extending to the outer 

 web of the first primaries ; tail brown, tipped with fulvous and 

 crossed with five broad bands of darker brown, the subterminal one 



