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Above clearer bluish slate ; below brighter 

 rufescent with less distinct whitish bars ; 

 thighs with bare indications of bars. 



Thighs uniform ashy grey ; red collar on hind 

 neck. 



108. Accipiter ruhricollis Wall., P.Z.S., 1863, pp. Moluccas 

 19, 21, pi. iv. [Bourn, type in B. M.] (Morotai, 



Red-collared Sparrow-Hawk. Bouru). 



Wing $215 mm. ; above blackish slate ; 

 red collar extending to upper interscapu- 

 lary region ; tail with 10 or 11 darker 

 bands, obsolete on outermost feathers ; 

 below pale ashy grey, sides of neck 

 chestnut. 



109. Accipiter brachyurus (Ramsay), Pr. Linn. New Britain. 

 Soc. N.S.W^, iv., p. 465 (1879) [New 

 Guinea err. = New Britain, vide errata, 

 p. 494.] 

 Short-tailed Sparrow-Hawk. 



Above " dark blue slaty grey " ; rufous 

 collar round hind neck. 



110. Accipiter erythrauchen erythraiichen Grav, N. Moluccas 



P.Z.S., I860' p. 344. [E. Gilolo, type in (Halmah^ra 



B. M.] Batchian, 



Grey-throated Sparrow-Hawk. Obi Is.). 



Wing (^170, $ 208 mm. ; bars on tail nearly 

 obsolete ; below uniform clear vinous, 

 paler on thighs ; lower abdomen white. 



