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Mantle blackish slate ; below paler salmon 

 colour, vmder wing-coverts distinctly barred. 

 73d Astur badius brevipes 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. 

 73e. Astur badms sphenurus (Riipp.), Neue Wirb., 

 p. 42 (1835). 

 Riippell's Goshawk. 



Below with numerous distinct narrow bars of 

 pale rufous ; under wing-coverts barred like 

 breast. 

 73f . Astur badius polyzonides (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. 



74. 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. 



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

 p. 209 (1821). winter to New 

 Horsfield's Goshawk. Guinea. 



Tail bars obsolete above. 

 75a. Astur soloensis cuculoides Temm., PI. 

 pi. 110, 129 (1823). 

 Chinese Goshawk. 



Col. 



76. 



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 pallidiceps (Salvad.), Orn. d. Papuasia, Bouru. 

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

 White-headed Goshawk. 



