2 ACCIPITEES. 



inner webs, except ofthe first four primaries, whicli are freckled, 

 with brown and washed with pale rufous bufFiu some specimens ; 

 under primary-coverts whitish, crossed with brown bars and tinged 

 with chestnut on the margins; upper tail-coverts deep ashy brown, 

 tipped and transversely blotched on both webs with white, inter- 

 spaces of the outer ones washed with deep chestnut ; tail ashy 

 grey, lighter on the basal margin of inner webs ; all the feathers 

 tipped with white, crossed with seven or eight blackish bands ; 

 under surface of tail lighter ; facial ruff and neck bluish grey ; 

 chest ashy grey, washed with rufous and spotted with white ; 

 remainder oi^ under surface of the body, under wing-coverts, and 

 axillaries deep rufous chestnut, each feather with a row of round 

 white spots on each web ; the spots are largest on the abdomen, 

 flanks and axillaries, and smallest on the thighs ; under tail-coverts 

 ashy grey near the end, and tipped with white, the spots forming 

 oblong transverse Avhite bars on some ; cere olive ; bill bluish 

 horn-colour at base, culmen and tip black ; tarsi olive ; iris 

 yellow. Total length 23 inches, wing 17'5, tarsi 3'9, middle toe 

 'l"8, bill from posterior margin of cere 1"3, along the culmen, 1"5, 



Adult male. The adult male is a little smaller in its measure- 

 ments, but the same in plumage. 



Young. "Above ashy brown, the feathers broadly margined with 

 pale tawny buff ; the head and lesser wing-coverts deep rusty, with 

 a few central streaks of dark brown ; sides of face and of neck, 

 as well as facial ruff, similarly coloured, but with rather broader 

 streaks of brown ; primaries black, secondariesbrowner,with tawny 

 buff tips ; all the ouilLs pale ashy below on inner web, washed 

 with rufous and mottled with ashy brown near base of primaries, 

 barred with the same colour on the secondaries, the prima- 

 ries coppery-brown underneath towards their tips ; upper tail- 

 coverts white, washed with rufous, and having dai'k brown centres ; 

 tail sepia-brown, tipped with tawny buff and crossed with six 

 bands of black, the subterminal one being the broadest; under 

 surface of body pale tawny buff, inclining to Avliite on abdomen 

 and thighs, narrowly streaked with dark brown on the breast ; the 

 under wing-coverts coloured like the latter, but with rather 

 broader streaks, the lower ones barred with ashy brown and pale 

 tawny buff ; axillaries brown, margined and notched with pale 

 tawny."* 



NestUnr/, Eeg. No. A. 9317. " Taken from the nest December 

 23rd, 1879, Lachjan Eiver, N.S.W. ; about five weeks old."* 

 Down on the head and neck dull ashy-grey, ear-coverts rufous, 

 on the remainder of the under surface white, the ends of piu- 

 feathers on the chest deep rufous, those on the flanks similar, 

 but with a broad lanceolate shaft stripe ; under tail-coverts 



=^' Sliarpe, Cat. Bds., Erit. Mus., vol, i, p. C3 (1S74). 



