ACCIPITER POLYZONOIDE S.— Smith. 



AvES. — Plate XI. (Female.) 



A. supra cinereus brunneo-umbratus, subtus albus ; gula guttureque levitcr fusco-subfasciatis ; pectore 

 abdomineque rubro-brunneo-fasciatis ; capitis cervicisque lateribus pallide griseis ; remigibus pri- 

 mariis pallide brunneis, pogoniis intemis nigro-brunneo-fasciatis ; secundariis griseis, pogoniis albo- 

 luaroinatis et fasciis nigro-brunneis uotatis ; cauda subtus alba fasclis sex nigTO-brunneis instructa. 



LoNGiTCDO 13 unc. 



Colour. — Above, pearl-grey shaded with brown, the latter colour particu- 

 larly distinct upon the interscapulars : the feathers of the nape of the neck are 

 pure white except at the points. Space below the eyes, ear coverts and sides 

 of the neck dull pearl- grey ; chin and throat white freckled with light brown, 

 the latter colour in the form of short indistinct bars. Breast, belly and thighs 

 white, closely banded with narrow, slightly undulated, reddish brown bars ; 

 vent and under tail coverts pure white. Shoulder coverts dark leaden grey, 

 slightly tinged with brown ; primary quill coverts dull blackish brown ; the 

 outer vanes of the primary quill feathers, and the last two-thirds of the inner 

 vanes light brown, the first third white ; each of the latter vanes are crossed 

 by a number of black-brown bars amounting on the longest feathers to ten 

 or eleven in number ; the secondaries pearl-grey, the inner vanes broadly 

 edged with white in addition to being crossed by several narrow black-brown 

 bars. The two centre feathers of the tail and the outer vanes of the remainder 

 pearl-grey, faintly flushed with brown ; the inner vanes white, and all the vanes 

 excepting the outer one of the outermost feather of each side crossed by six 

 black-brown bands, the one nearest the point the broadest; on several of the 

 inner vanes more or less of the spaces between the bands are of the same 

 colour as the outer vanes ; the tips of all the feathers white. The cere and 

 legs light saffron yellow ; bill and claws brownish black, the edge of the 

 upper mandible near the angle of the mouth, and the base of the lower one 

 dull yellow. Eyes bright orange. 



Form, &c. — Typical ; bill strongly arched from the base, and considerably 

 compressed ; festoon of upper mandible only slightly developed ; tarsi and 

 toes moderately robust, the divisions of the plates and scales of the former 

 scarcely perceptible ; the inner toe rather longer than the hinder one ; the 

 claws much curved, slightly compressed and pointed. The wings when folded 

 reach rather beyond the first half of the tail ; the fourth quill feather rather 

 the longest, the third and fifth a little shorter and nearly of equal length. 

 Tail long and slightly rounded at the point. 



