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bluish ; below more reddish and lighter, 
with narrow and nearly obsolete whitish 
bars. 
98d. Astur fasciatus insulivis, F. Sarasin, Nove New Caledonia, 
Caledonia Zool. Aves, p. 8 (1913). [New New Hebrides, 
Caledonia. | Loyalty Is. 
New Caledonia Goshawk. 
Wing 225-230 mm.; under wing-coverts 
reddish isabelline, barred with blackish 
brown. 
Gen. XXVI. NISOIDES Pollen (1866). 
Type N. moreli Poll. 
Hinder aspect of tarsus scaled; commissure of 
bill perfectly straight. 
99. Nisoides moreli Pollen, Bull. Soc. Sc. Réun., W. Coast of 
1866, p. 62. [Madagascar, type in Leyden Madagascar. 
Mus. | 
Morell’s Goshawk. 
Wing § 152 mm. ; above slaty black ; nape 
and base of scapulars mottled with white 
and upper tail-coverts tipped with same ; 
tail with about 8 darker bands; below 
white barred with rufous brown; throat 
streaked with black. 
Gen. XXVM.  -ACCIPITER Briss. (1760). 
Type by taut. Accipiter accipiter Briss. [= A. msus.] 
Bill with distinct festoon to cutting margin of 
upper mandible; nostrils oval; tarsus long, 
slender and smooth ; toes long and slender, par- 
ticularly the middle one, which is more than 
twice ridge of bill (without cere). Maximum 
size ¢, 15.8; 9, 18 in. Minimum 2, 88; 
2, 10.5 in. 
