24 



Under wing and tail-coverts whitish ; thighs 

 reddish white. 

 71e. Astur etorques pulchellus Ramsay, Jnl. Linn. 

 Soc.,xvi., p. 131(1881). 

 Ramsay's Goshawk. 



h. Above paler ashy grey ; crown bluish ; tail 

 uniform ; below paler salmon colour, with 

 remains of white bars on breast, more numerous 

 on abdomen. 



72. Astur sylvestris (Wall.), P.Z.S., 1863, pp. 484, 

 487. 



Flore s Goshawk. 



i. Above bluish grey ; tail with 5 or 6 blackish 

 bars ; below salmon rufous, with white cross 

 bars. 



73. Astur badius badius (Gmel.), S.N., i., p. 280 

 (1788). 



Ceylonese Shikra. 



Larger and lighter grey. 

 73a. Astur badius dussumieri Temm., PI. Col., livr. 

 52, pi. 308 (1824) 

 Shikra 



Solomon Is. 

 (Cape Pitt, 

 Florida Is., 

 Guadalcanar, 

 Ysabel Is.) 



Lesser Sunda 

 Is. (Flores). 



Ceylon. 

 Travancore. 



Whole of 



Indian 



Peninsula. 



73b. 



73c. 



Above paler bluish ; below with broader and 



brighter vinous bands. 



Astur badius poliopsis (Hume), Stray 



Feathers, ii., 1874, p. 325. 



Hume's Shikra. 



Tail slightly longer and more barred. 

 Astur badius cenchroides Severtz, Turkist. 

 Jevotn., p. 63 (1873). 

 Severtzow's Shikra. 



Burma, 

 Assam, 

 Cachar, 

 Tenasserim, 

 Siam, and 

 Gamboja to 

 to Cochin 

 China, 

 Formosa. 



Central Asia 

 (Turkestan), 

 Baluchistan, 

 E. Persia and 

 Punjab, Sind 

 (winter). 



