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102c.Accipiter minullus tropicalis (Reich.), Jr. f . O., E. Africa, 

 p. 139, 1898. 



Upper tail-coverts conspicuously white ; 

 barrings below blackish brown with very 

 little rufous. 

 lQ2d.Accipiter minullus erythropus (Hartl.), J.f.O., W.Africa, 

 1855, p. 354. Gold Coast to 



Red-legged Sparrow-Hawk. Cameroon s. 



c. Above dark ashy grey ; tail, with 4 darker bars, 

 alternated with paler bands , in centre of each of 

 which is a white spot ; below white with narrow 

 grey bands. 



103. Accipiter ovampensis Gurney, Ibis, 1875, p. Ovampo 

 367, pi. vi. Land, S.W. 

 Gurney's Sparrow-Hawk. Africa, to 



Zambesi 

 Country, 

 Nyasaland, S. 

 Abyssinia, 

 Gambaga 

 (Gold Coast). 



d. Above blackish brown ; tail uniform above, 

 with paler bands beneath ; below white, 

 thickly barred with greyish black. 



104. Accipiter madagascariensis Verr., S. Air. Q. Madagascar. 

 Jnl., ii., p. 282 (1834). 



Madagascar Sparrow-Hawk. 



B. Thighs nearly uniform brown, with slight 



remains of white cross bars ; an ill-defined 

 white collar on hind neck, 

 a. Above sooty brown ; tail with 5 darker bands ; 

 below white, broadly barred with rufous 

 brown. 



105. Accipiter collaris (Kaup), MS. in Mus. Brit. Colombia, 

 unde ; Scl., Ibis, 1860, p. 148, pi. 6. 



Semi-collared Sparrow-Hawk. 



C. Thighs barred ; red collar on hind neck. 



a. Above bluish ash ; tail almost uniform above, 

 but with numerous darker bars below on inner 

 webs ; below broadly barred with vinous red 

 and greyish white. 



106. Accipiter cirrocephalus (Vieill.), N. Diet., x., E.Australia, 

 p. 329 (1817). 



Collared Sparrow-Hawk. 



