30 



96. 



bands ; below white barred with rufous brown ; 



throat streaked with black ; length, ,^, 11.5, 



wing 6 in. 



Nisoides moreli Pollen, Bull. Soc. Sc. Reun., W. Coast of 



1866, p. 62. Madagascar. 



Morell's Goshawk. 



Gen. XXVI. ACCIPITER Briss. (1760). 



Bill with distinct festoon to cutting margin of upper 

 mandible ; nostrils oval ; tarsus long, slender and 

 smooth ; toes long and slender, particularly the 

 middle one, which is more than twice ridge of 

 bill (without cere). Maximum size (^, 15.8 : $, 

 18 in. Minimum ^j^, 8.8 ; $, 10.5 in. 



Key to the NATURAii Groups and Species (Adults). 



A. Thighs banded ; no collar round neck. 



a. Above bluish slate ; nape more or less mottled 

 with white ; tail with about 4 darker bands ; 

 below white, breast barred with rufous or 

 brown : flanks rufous. 



97. Accipiter nisus nisus (Linn.), S.N., i., p. 92 

 (1758). 

 Common Sparrow-Hawk. 



Smaller, darker above, more closely and 

 thickly barred below. 

 97a. Accipiter nisus woUerstorffi Kleinschm., Orn. 

 Mb., ix., p. 168 (1901). 

 Sardinian Sparrow-Hawk. 



Europe and 

 N. Asia, in 

 winter to 

 Algeria, N.E. 

 Africa, India, 

 China. 



Sardinia. 



Above bluer. 

 97b. Accipiter nisus punicus Erlanger, Orn. Mb., 

 v., p. 187 (1897). 

 Tunisian Sparrow-Hawk. 



97c. Astur nisus nisisimilis Tickell, Jnl. As. Soc. 

 Beng. ii., p. 571 (1833). 

 Indian Sparrow-Hawk 



Tunis. 



India, 

 Kashmir, 



Assam, 

 Burma, 

 Afghanistan, 

 Turkestan. 



