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throat, which is white, with a more or less well-marked dark line down 
the middle, formed by the very narrow black or grayish-black shaft- 
stripes to the feathers. Fourth@frimary quill longest and considerable 
longer than the fifth. 
“Male adult—Throat white, the line of feathers down the middle with 
black shafts, forming a very narrow black central line, absent in the 
most adult examples. The fourth primary quill longest, and considerably 
longer than the fifth.” 
180. ACCIPITER VIRGATUS (Temminck). 
INDIAN SPARROW HAWKE. 
Faleo virgatus TEMMINCEK, PI. Col. (1823), 1, pl. 109. 
Aceipiter virgatus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 150 (part) ; 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 253; Evrerrerr, Ibis (1895), 38. 
Accipiter gularis McGrrcor and WorcEsTER, Hand-List (1906), 41 (part). 
Palawan (Hverett). Southern India, Ceylon, Andamans, and Greater Sunda 
Islands. 
“Adult male.—Above deep blackish slate-color, the nape slightly mottled 
with white, the crown and wing-coverts a little darker; quills dark brown, 
shaded with slate-color, without any bars above, the under surface paler 
and more ashy, inclining to pale rufous near the base of inner web, with 
blackish cross-bars; tail ashy gray above, whitish ashy beneath, paler at 
tip, and crossed with three bars of slaty black; ear-coverts and sides of 
neck slaty gray, the latter washed with rufous; fore part of cheeks and 
throat buffy white, with a few indistinct blackish shaft-lines here and 
there; rest of under surface bright vinous-chestnut, much paler on the 
thighs; abdomen and under tail-coverts white; under wing-coverts rich 
ocherous, the lower ones and the axillars irregularly barred with brownish. 
Cere yellow; bill black, lead-color at base; feet pale orange-yellow; iris 
yellow. Length, 279; culmen, 19; wing, 168; tail, 129; tarsus, 48. 
“Adult female.—A little larger than the male. Length, 330; wing, 
188; tarsus, 56.” (Sharpe.) 
181. ACCIPITER MANILLENSIS (Meyen). 
PHILIPPINE SPARROW HAWK. 
Nisus manillensis MEYEN, Beitr. (1834), 694, pl. 9. 
Accipiter virgatus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 150 (part). 
Accipiter manillensis GRANT, Ibis (1897), 212; SHARPE, Hand-List (1899), 
1, 254; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 41. 
Accipiter stevensont TWEEDDALE, Proce. Zool. Soc. (1878), 938, pl. 57. 
Cebu (McGregor) ; Guimaras (Bourns € Worcester) ; Leyte (Whitehead) ; Lu- 
zon (Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, 
Celestino, Goodfellow) ; Mindoro (Everett, Porter) ; Negros (Steere). 
Adult.—Above brown; head, neck, and mantle with an ashy blue wash, 
basal portion of feathers white or with one or two large white spots; back, 
