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Above clearer bluish slate ; below brighter 
rufescent with less distinct whitish bars ; 
thighs with bare indications of bars. 
C. Thighs uniform ashy grey ; red collar on hind 
108. 
109. 
110. 
neck. 
Accipiter rubricollis Wall., P.Z.S., 1863, pp. 
19, 21, pl.iv. [Bouru, type in B. M.] 
Red-collared Sparrow- Hawk. 
Wing 2 215 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. 
Accipiter brachyurus (Ramsay), Pr. Linn. 
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. 
Accipiter erythrauchen erythrauchen Gray, 
P.Z.S., 1860, p. 344. [E. Gilolo, type in 
BoM] 
Grey-throated Sparrow-Hawk. 
Wing 5 170, 2208 mm. ;_ bars on tail nearly 
obsolete; below unitorm clear vinous, 
paler on thighs ; lower abdomen white. 
Moluccas 
(Morotai, 
Bouru). 
New Britain. 
N. Moluccas 
(Halmahéra 
Batchian, 
Obi Is.). 
