25 



73d 



73e. 



73f. 



74. 



75. 



Mantle blackish slate ; below paler salmon 

 colour, under wing-coverts distinctly barred. 

 Astur badius brevvpes Severtz., Bull. Soc. Imp. 

 Nat., Moscou, xxxiii., p. 234, tab. i.-iii. (1850). 

 Levant Shikra. 



Above clear bluish ashy, under wing-coverts 

 buffy white, with faint dusky cross bars. 

 Astur badius sjjhemirus (Riipp.), Neue Wirb., 

 p. 42 (1835). 

 Riippeirs Goshawk. 



Below with numerous distinct narrow bars of 



pale rufous ; under wing-coverts barred like 



breast. 



Astur badius i^olyzonides (Smith), 111. Zool. S. 



Afr.,pl.xi.(1838). 



Little Barred Goshawk. 



Central 

 Russia, 

 Dalmatia, 

 Greece, 

 Turkey, Asia 

 Minor, Persia, 

 Syria, Egypt. 



N.E. Africa, 

 Sudan to 

 Senegambia, 

 Sierra Leone, 

 Nigeria, 



S. Africa, N. 

 to Nyasaland. 



Tail with only one indistinct subterminal bar ; 



under wing-coverts white. 



Astur butleri Gurney, Bull. B.O.C., vii., p. Car Nicobar 



xxvii. (1898). ^ Is., Bay of 



Butler's Goshawk. Bengal. 



Tail with 5 bars ; body below, pale buffy 



vinous without bars. 



Astur soloensis soloensis (Lath.), Gen. Hist., i., China, S.in 



p. 209 (1821). winter to New 



Horsfield's Goshawk. Guinea. 



75a. 



76. 



Tail bars obsolete above. 



Astur soloensis cuculoides Temm., PL Col., i. 



pi. 110, 129 (1823). 



Chinese Goshawk. 



N. China, S. 

 in winter to 

 Malay 

 Archipelago. 



Head, neck and upper part of mantle light 



greyish white ; rest of upper parts slate grey ; 



tail uniform ; below vinous rusty red. 



Astur jJallidiceps (Salvad.), Orn. d. Papuasia, Bouru. 



etc., i., p. 64 (1879). 



White-headed Goshawk. 



