16 Mr. E. Blyth on the Birds of India. 



minutus, Lesson*. F. minutus (?), L. F, brissonianus (?), 

 Shaw. 



Hab. India generally, but chiefly the hilly parts; also Malasia : 

 rare and accidental in Lower Bengal. 



Genus Micronisus, G. R. Gray. 



47. M. BADius (PI. Col. 308,336). 



Syn. Falco badius, Gmelin. F. brownii, Shaw. F. dussu- 

 mieri, Temm. (not of Sykes's nor Jerdon's Catalogues). Acci- 

 piter dukhunensis, Sykes. A. scutarius et A. fz-inffillaroides, Hodg- 

 son. Nisus malai/ensis, Meyer. Calcutta Sparrow-Hawk and 

 Chippuck Falcon, Latham. 



Hab. India generally; Indo-Chinese and Malay countries, 

 being very numerous throughout India and Ceylon : not uncom- 

 mon in Afghanistan ; Cashmere; Assam; Siam; China ?t 



Genus Astur, Bechstein. 



48. A. PALUMBARius (PI. Enl. 418, 423, 461 ; Gould's B.E. 

 pi. 17). 



Syn. Falco palumbarius et F. yentilis, L. F. gallinarius, 

 Gmelin. F. albescens, Bodd. Accipiter astur, Pallas. Astur 

 gallinarum, Brehm. 



Hab. Europe and Asia; rare in N.Africa: in India con- 

 fined, or very nearly so, to the sub- Himalayas. 



[Lophospiza, Kaup.) 



49. A. TRIVIRGATUS (PI. Col. 303). 



Syn. Falco trivirgatus, Reinwardt. A. indicus, Hodgson. 

 A. palumbarius, apud Jerdon, Catal. A. cristatus, G. R. Gray. 

 Spiza'etus rufitinctus, McClelland. 



Hab. India, Indo-China, and Malasia; being confined to the 

 hilly parts. 



* Referred by Dr. Pucheran to " Nisus soloensis,*' in the Rev. Zool. 

 1850, p. 210, — a species assigned by him to Sumatra on the authority 

 of Duvaucel, and to the Coromandel coast and Ceylon on that of Lesche- 

 uault, but which I have never seen or heard of even from the Malayan 

 peninsula. 



t Vide note to Accipiter nisus, p. 14. 



