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Key to the Natural Groups and Species (Adults). 



A. Thighs banded ; no collar round neck. 



f*100. Accipiter nisus nisus (Linn.), S.N., i., p. 92 Europe ^ and 



(1758). [Europe = Sweden, apud Hartert]. W. Asia ; in 



Common Sparrow-Hawk. winter to 



Algeria, N.K. 



Wing ^ 190-208, 2 230-242 mm. ; above Alrica, India, 



bluish slate ; nape more or less mottled China, 

 with white ; tail with about 4 darker bands; 

 below white, breast barred with rufous or 

 brown ; flanks rulous. 



100a. Accipiter nisus wolterstorfji Kleinschm., Sardinia. 

 Orn.' MB., ix., p. 168 (1901). [Sardinia, 

 type in Kleinschmidt's Coll.] 

 Sardinian Sparrow-Hawk. 



Smaller ; wing S 183, $ 215-223 mm. ; 

 darker above, more closely and thickly 

 barred below. 



100b. Accipiter nisus punicus¥.T\2Ln^er,0Tn. MB., Tunis, Algeria, 

 v., p. 187 (1897). [Ain-bou- Dries, Tun- Marocco. 

 isia]. 

 North African Sparrow-Hawk. 



Larger ; wing S 203-213, $ 243-255 nmi. ; 

 above bluer. 



*100c. Accipiter nisus nisosimilis Tickell, Jnl. As. N. and Central 

 Soc. Beng. ii., p. 571 (1833-34). [Borah- Asia, from Tur- 



hum, India.] 



Indian Sparrow-Hawk. 



kestan to Japan; 

 in winter to 

 India, Kashmii , 



Larger form of A . n. nisus ; wing o 205-215, Assam, Burma. 



? 240-257 mm. 



■i Kleinschmidt (Falco xiii., p. 24, 1918) has separated the French race as A. 

 nisus gallies. 



