22 ACCIPITRIN &. 
slightly rounded ; tarsus moderate, or shortish, plumed below 
the knees for nearly half the length of the tarsus, stout, with 
large scute in front and behind ; near the knee, posteriorly, the 
scales are small and reticulated; toes strong, outer-toe longer 
than the inner one, joined to the middle-one ; middle-toe moder- 
ately long ; claws well curved, unequal; inner claw very large 
about equal to that of the hind-toe. 
Astur trivirgatus, Tem. 
22.—_Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 47; Hume’s Scrap Book, 
p. 116. 
THE CRESTED GOSHAWK. 
Gor besra, Hin. 
&o. Length, 16; wing, 8:5; tail, 7; tarsus, 2°2. 
9. Length, 175; wing, 9:5; tail, 8 ; tarsus, 2°5; irides bright 
yellow ; legs pale yellow ; cere lemon-yellow. 
The young bird is brown above, with pale edgings to the 
feathers ; eyebrows white, and some white or rufous about the 
nape; below white, more or less spotted on the breast, abdomen 
and flanks with dark brown spots, least numerous in the male; 
tail pale ashy-brown, with four or five dark broad bands; thigh- 
coverts with transverse brown bands;a narrow dark line down 
the centre of the chin and throat; and two more, one on each 
side of the neck, not very distinct in the male, but becoming 
more so with age ; an occipital crest of several elongated feathers ; 
under wing-coverts white, with brown spots; quills and _ tail 
beneath light cinereous, with dark bands. 
The adult bird has the upper plumage glossy dark brown, in 
some with an olivaceous tinge, in older birds with a dark 
slaty hue, especially when freshly moulted; wings and tail 
banded, the latter with four distinct dark bands; beneath 
white, the throat and upper part of the breast, with pale yellow- 
brown oval spots; the rest of the plumage beneath barred with 
rich yellow-brown, the bars broad on the breast, belly and flanks ; 
narrow on the thigh-coverts, but all becoming more narrow by 
age. 
"The Gor-besra is one of the rarest winter visitants we have. 
As yet it has only been doubtfully recorded from the hilly wooded 
regions near Mhow; outside our limits, on the Neilgherries, it 
is not uncommon. 
With regard to its nidification nothing definite seems to be 
known, but it is strongly suspected to breed in the more southern 
parts of India. ° 
Astur badius, Gm. 
23.—Micronisus badius, Gm.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, 
p. 49; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 445; Dec- 
can and South Mahratta country; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, 
