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KEY TO THE NATURAL GROUPS AND SPECIES (ADULTS). 
A. Thighs banded; no collar round neck. 
+*100. 
100a. 
Accipiter nisus nmisus (Linn.), S.N., i., p. 92 
(1758). [Europe =Sweden, apud Hartert]. 
Common Sparrow-Hawk. 
Wing 3 190-208, 2 230-242 mm.; above 
bluish slate ; nape more or less mottled 
with white ; tail with about 4 darker bands; 
below white, breast barred with rufous or 
brown ; flanks rutous. 
Accipiter misus wolterstorfji Wleinschm., 
Orn. MB., ix., p. 168 (1901). [Sardinia, 
type in Kleinschmidt’s Coll.] 
Sardinian Sparrow-Hawk. 
Smaller; wing ¢ 183, 2 215-223 mm. ; 
darker above, more closely and thickly 
» barred below. 
100b. 
*100c. 
Accipiter nisus punicus Erlanger, Orn. MB., 
v., p. 187 (1897). [Ain-bou-Dries, Tun- 
sia]. 
North African Sparrow-Hawk. 
Larger; wing ¢ 203-213, 2 243-255 mm. ; 
above bluer. 
Accipiter nisus nisosimilis Tickell, Jnl. As. 
Soc. Beng. 11., p. 571 (1833-34). [Borab- 
hum, India. | 
Indian Sparrow-Hawk. 
Larger form of A. x. nisus ; wing 3 205-215, 
2 240-257 mm. 
Europe? and 
W. Asia; in 
winter to 
Algeria, N.E. 
Atrica, Indias 
China. 
Sardinia. 
Tunis, Algeria, 
Marocco. 
N. and Central 
Asia, from Tur- 
kestan to Japan; 
in winter to 
India, Kashmir, 
Assam, Burma. 
1 Kleinschmidt (Falco xiii., p. 24, 1918) has separated the French race as 4. 
nisus gallia. 
