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throat, which is white, with a more or less well-marked dark line down 

 the middle, formed by the very narrow black or grayish-black shaft- 

 stripes to the feathers. Fourth primary quill longest and considerahle 

 longer than the fifth. 



"Male adult. — Throat white, the line of feathers down the middle with 

 black shafts, forming a very narrow black central line, absent in the 

 most adult examples. The fourtli primary quill longest, and considerahly 

 longer than the fifth.'' 



180. ACCI PITER VIRGATUS (Temminck) . 



INDIAN SPARROW HAWK. 



Faleo virgattis Temminck, PI. Col. (1823), 1, pi. 109. 



Aecipiter virgatus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 150 (part); 



Hand-List "(1899), 1, 253; Everett, Ibis (1895), .38. 

 Aecipiter gularis McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 41 (part). 



Palawan {Everett). Soiithern India, Ceylon, Andamans, and Greater Sunda 

 Islands. 



"Adult male. — Above deep blackish slate-color, the nape slightly mottled 

 with white, the crown and wing-coverts a little darker ; quills dark brown, 

 shaded with slate-color, without any bars above, the under surface paler 

 and more ashy, inclining to pale rufous near the base of inner web, with 

 blackish cross-bars ; tail ashy gray above, whitish ashy beneath, paler at 

 tip, and crossed with three bars of slaty black; ear-coverts and sides of 

 neck slaty gray, the latter washed with rufous; fore part of cheeks and 

 throat buffy white, wii;h a few indistinct blackish shaft-lines here and 

 there; rest of under surface bright vinous-chestnut, much paler on the 

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

 ocherous, the lower ones and the axillars irregularly barred with brownish. 

 Cere yellow; bill black, lead-color at base; feet pale orange-yellow; iris 

 yellow. Length, 379 ; culmen, 19 ; wing, 168 ; tail, 129 ; tarsus, 48. 



"Adult female. — A little larger than the male. Length, 330; wing, 

 188; tarsus, 56." (Sharpe.) 



181. ACCIPITER MANILLENSIS (Meyen). 



PHILIPPINE SPARROW HAWK. 



Nisus manillensis Meyen, Beitr. (1834), 694, pi. 9. 



Aecipiter virgatus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 150 (jmrt). 



Aecipiter wan !7?eHSis Grant, Ibis (1897), 212; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 



1, 254; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 41. 

 Aecipiter stevensoni Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 938, pi. 57. 



Cebu (MeOregor) ; Guimaras {Bourns t€ Worcester) ; Leyte (Whitehead) ; Lu- 

 zon {Heriot, Whitehead, McGi-egor) ; Mindanao {Everett, Bourns <C- Worcester, 

 Celestino, Goodfellotv) ; Mindoro {Everett, Porter) ; Negros {Steere). 



Adult. — ^Above brown ; head, neck, and mantle with an ashy blue wash, 

 ba^^al portion of feathers white or with one or two large white spots; back. 



