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79a. Astur sphenurus riggenbachi Neumann, 

 Bull. B.O.C., xxi., p. 69 (1914) [Gassam, 

 E. of Thies. Senegal type in Riggenbach 

 coll.] 

 Riggenbach's Goshawk. 



Wing ,$ 111 mm. ; much darker above, 

 more like A . soloensis ; below vinous buff, 

 throat and upper breast uniform in adult, 

 below barred with white. 



Senegal. 



*80. Astur polyzonoides (Smith), 111. Zool. S. 

 Afr., pi. xi. (1838). [5. Africa, type in 

 B. M.] 

 Little Barred Goshawk. 



S. Africa, N. to 

 Nyasaland. 



Smaller ; wing S 160, $ 190 mm. ; above 

 slaty brown ; tail (including centre feath- 

 ers) with 6 darker bars ; below white, 

 narrowly barred with rufous brown ; wing 

 quills all banded with black below. 



81. Astur butleri Gurney, Bull. B.O.C. 

 xxvii. (1898). [Car Nicobar I., 

 Norwich Mus.] 

 Butler's Goshawk. 



, vn., 

 type 



P- 

 in 



Car Nicobar 

 I., Bay of 



Bengal. 



Wing (J 173 mm. ; tail with only one indis- 

 tinct subterminal bar ; under wing-coverts 

 white. 



82. Astur soloensis Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc, 

 xiii., p. 137 (1821). [Java.] 

 Chinese Goshawk. 

 [A. cuculoides a synonym.] 



Wing ad. 180-200 mm. ; tail with 5 bars : 

 body below, pale buffy vinous without bars. 



China, S. in 

 winter to IVIalay 

 Archipelago and 

 New Guinea. 



