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postea fascia albescenti-viridi lerminatis, remigibus nigrescentibus 

 viridi limbatis ; torque pectorali fiavo ; pectore et abdomine ceraseis, 

 lateribus viridibus ; subalaribus schistaceis ; abdomine et erisso tiavis ; 

 rostro plumbeo pedibus ceraseis; $ supra et subtus omnino viridis; 

 abdomine et erisso flavis, quoad caudam raari similis. 



Lg. 8,2; al. 4—6; caud. 3,5; tars. 0,7. 



Hab.: Solomon Islands. 



Ä V G V O 7h J. C 7J S 7)1/ (X 7}j7%Z% 



H. Schlegel, Not. Roy. Zool. Mus. LeydenNo. 2 1879. p. 103. 



Front, tbroat, rump and upper tail-coverts greenish yellow. 

 Under part of body yellowish g-reen. The middle pair of tail- 

 feathers yellowish olive color. The other tailfeathers grayish at 

 the base, passing into a large band of dark bluish gray, while 

 more than the last third of these feathers is of a grayish white 

 color which spreads also over the upperside of the other tail- 

 feathers, bnt in decreasing extensiou towards the outer feathers. 

 Under tail-coverts green, very broadely margined. with fulvous 

 yellowish white. Crown and sides of the head, neck, small wing- 

 coverts, shoulder-feathers and mantle green with a grayish hue; 

 with the exception of the bindest part of the mantle and the 

 hinder shoulder-feathers, which are both of a brownish red incli- 

 ning to purple. Quills black, but the tertiairies washed with green. 

 Middle wing coverts black, very broadely margined with limonyellow 

 like the tertiairies; great wing-coverts with somewhat smaller, 

 and primaries with very small yellow margins, Entire underside 

 of the wing bluish ashy gray. 



Habitat: Siimba (Sandelwoodisland). 

 FALCONIDAE. 



Microliier ax l atifr ons. 



Sharpe, Ibis 1879. p. 237. plate VlI. 



M. similis. M. fringillario, sed fronte latissima alba et fascia 

 alba hujus speciei per latera colli decurrente nulla distinguendus. 

 Lg. 6,5; culra. 0,45; al. 4,0; caud. 2,3; tarsi 0,75. 



Hab.: Lumbidan, north-western Borneo. 



Urospizias pallidiceps. 



Salvadori, Ibis 1879. p. 474. 



Accifiter cruentus part. Wall. P. Z, S. 1863. p. 22 (Bourou). 



Accipitcr torquatus part. Wall. Ibis. 1868. p. 11 (Bourou). 



^stur Wallach' part. Sharpe Cat. B. 1. p. 128 (juv. Bourou). 



Urospizias torquatus, part. Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. XII. 

 p. 38 u. 28. 1878 (Bourou). 



Nisus rufitorques, part. Schleg. Not. Leyd. Mus. 1. p. 2. 1878 

 (Bourou). 



Urospizias pallidiceps^ Salvad. Orn. d. Papuasia e. d. Molucche 1. 

 p. 64. 1879 (ex Schlegelio). 



„Entire head and neck to the middle of the mantle of a light 

 greyish white, inclining to a vinous colour on the ehest. Breast, 

 belly, under tail-coverts, thigh-feathers, and under wing-coverts of 



