I'g PALCONID^E. 



-much plainer unflerneatT-i where the quills are white at the base of the inner 

 web. Tail ashy brown, paler at tip, crossed with four bands of dark brown ; 

 throat white with a distinct black moustachia'l streak >on each side and a broad 

 medial line ; chest clear tawny rufous :; Test of under surface white, broadly 

 banded with pale rufous, each bar of this colour having a conterminous 

 brown. bar ; the thighs thickly barred with ashy brown without any rufous tinge. 

 Under <tail coverts white.; under wing coverts white, spotted with brown or 

 rufous brown.; axillaries similarly barred. Bill black, plumbeous at base. Cere 

 orange yellow. Chee'ks and orbits orainge; feet yellow; irides orange 

 yellow. 



Lengfh.n to 16 inches; wing 7-8 to 8-5; tail 63 to 7; tarsus 2'i 

 to 2-2. 



Adult Female. Much larger. Length 17-5 to 18 inches.; wing 9-5 to 97 ; 

 tail 8-0; tarsus 2-5 to 27.. 



Young. Brown above, with a fully developed occipital crest. Upper tail 

 coverts banded with darker brown and tipped with white. Tail with five 

 cross bands of darker brown. Under surface of body white, throat as in the 

 adult; breast broadly streaked with pale rufous or dark brown; lower breast, 

 thighs, and abdomen barred with jpale rufous, darker on the thighs ; under tail 

 coverts white, with a few narrow rather indistinct cross bars ; under wing 

 coverts buff, spotted and barred with dark brown. 



Hab. Southern India and Ceylom, Assam, Burmah, Java, Borneo, Sumatra, 

 and the PhilKpine Islands. Nothing is known of its nidification in India. The 

 larger Nepalese race is provisionally separated by Mr, Sharpe as A. indicus. 



16. Astlir badlllS, Kaup. his, 1847 ; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. Br. Mus. p. 109, 

 (Sub-Sp. A.). Micronisus badius, Bp. Consp* i. p. 33 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 48, 

 No. 23; Blyth, Ibis, 1863; Hume, Rough Notes, p. 117; Murray, Hdbk. 

 ZooL, &c., Sind ; id. Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 108. Accipiter badius, Strickl. 

 Ann. Mag. N. H. xiii. p. 33. The SHIKRA or BROWN HAWK. 



Young. Head, nape, neck behind, back, scapulars, wing and upper tail 

 coverts ashy, dusky, or pale earthy brown, the feathers on the head slightly 

 darker, and all edged with pale rufous, the feathers of the neck with their 

 white bases showing through. Lores and eyebrow white ; sides of the face and 

 ear coverts pale brown, tinged with rufescent and mesially streaked with 

 darker; chin and throat white, with a mesial dark brown throat stripe; breast 

 and abdomen whitish with large longitudinal drops oval on the upper breast 

 of a pale rufous colour. Vent and under tail coverts white ; under wing 

 coverts buff, streaked and barred with dark brown ; thigh coverts also barred. 

 Primaries brown, their inner webs buffy, and barred with dark brown ; secon- 

 daries brown, barred darker on both webs and margined and tipped with buffy. 

 tail ashy brown with 56 broad dark brown bands ; narrower and about nine 



