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Gen. LVIII. DRYOTRIORCHIS Shelley (1874). 
Type by orig. desig. Astuy spectabilis Schl. 
Tarsus bare on lower portion ; nostrils perpendi- 
cular ovals ; head with a short crest of lanceolate 
feathers ; wings short ; size larger, length about 
22.5 in. 
212. 
212a. 
Dryotriorchis spectabilis spectabilis (Schl.), 
Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk., 1., p. 131, pl. 6 
(1863). [St. George Elmina, Gold. Coast, 
type in Leyd. Mus. ] 
Beautiful Wood-Hawk. 
Wing 300 mm. ; above dark brown ; nape 
and scapulars with white bases to feathers ; 
quills brown, barred with darker brown, 
the inner webs white ; tail with 6 blackish 
bands; below white; fawn colour on 
throat and chest, former with black central 
stripe; chest and breast with black spot 
on tip of each feather, becoming bars on 
flanks and thighs; vent and under tail- 
coverts with spots of rufous. 
Dryotriorchis spectabilis batesi Sharpe, Ibis, 
1904, p. 601. [Efulen, Cameroon, type in 
Brit. Mus. ] 
Bates’s Wood-Hawk. 
Wing 3 290 mm.; chest uniform creamy 
white, without the large black spots (except 
in immature birds). 
W. Africa 
(Gold Coast to 
Cameroon). 
Cameroon, 
Gaboon, and E. 
to Aruwhimi R., 
Belgian Congo. 
Gen. LIX. EUTRIORCHIS Sharpe (1875). 
Type by orig. desig. Eutriorchis astur Sharpe. 
Wings remarkably short, not extending much 
beyond base of tail; tail elongated ; head witha 
short crest. 
