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Wing c? 205-213, $ 253-264 mm. ; tail with 

 5 black bands ; head black ; sides of face 

 and under surface slaty blue, with blackish 

 shaft stripes ; thighs and under wing- 

 coverts rufous. 



*123. Accipiter bicolor bicolor (Vieill.), N. Diet., 

 X., p. 325 (1817). [Cayenne.] 

 Four-banded Sparrow-Hawk. 



Wing (^215, ? 250-254 mm. ; under wing- 

 coverts white, rufous along carpal bend ; 



thighs rufous 



tail with 4 dark bars. 



Central America 

 to Colombia, 

 Venezuela and 

 Guiana. 



123a. Accipiter bicolor schisiochlamys Hellmayr, W. Ecuador. 

 Bull. B.O.C., xvi., p. 82 (1906). [Nanegal, 

 W. Ecuador, type in Tring Mus.] 

 Hellmayr 's Sparrow- Hawk. 



Wing S 200 mm. ; below much darker 

 schistaceous ; axillaries and under wing- 

 coverts cinereous edged with white, instead 

 of white. 



123b. Accipiter bicolor fidcns Bangs & Noble, Mexico. 

 Auk., XXXV., p. 444 (1918). [Vera Cruz.] 

 Mexican Sparrow- Hawk.^ 



Larger and darker than A. b. bicolor; 

 wing $ 260 mm. 



*124. Accipiter chilensis Phil. & Landb., Arch. f. 

 Naturg., 1864, p. 43. [Chile.] 

 Chilian Sparrow-Hawk. 



Wing ^ 210-216, ? 246-250 mm. ; below 

 ashy grey, with large white spots and bars, 

 margined with brownish ; thighs rufous ; 

 under wing-coverts rufous. 



Chile to Str. 



Magellan, 



Patagonia. 



