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Inhabits Guiana. Length fifteen inches : its beak 

 is bright blue beneath : cere blue : legs yellow : the 

 general colour of the plumage ashy-bluish : the under 

 parts of the body are banded with whitish : the tail 

 has two black bands, and its tip is white. 



STIRPS II.— ACC1PITRINA. (HAWKS.) 



Rostrum breve a basi aduncum ; alee breves ; remex quarta ple- 



ramque longissima. 

 Beak short, hooked from the base ; tvings short ; the fourth quill 



generally largest. 



GENUS XVIII.— DtEDALION, Vigors. 



Rostrum breve. 

 Tarsi mediocres ; acrotarsia 

 reticulata. 



Beak short. 



Tarsi moderate; acrotarsia 

 reticulated. 



Sp. 1. Dae cachinans. 



Falco cachinans. Shaw, v. vii. p. 156. Vieil. Gal. dts Ois. 

 pi. 19. — South America, 



Sp. 2. Dae. melanops. 



Falco melanops. Shaw, v. vii. p. 175 ? — Cayenne. 



GENUS XIX.— ASTUR Auctorum. GOSHAWK. 



Rostrum breve; na,res sub- 



ovales. 

 Tarsi mediocres ; acrotarsia 



scutellata. 



Sparvius pars. Vieillot. 



Beak short; nostrils nearly 



oval. 

 Tarsi moderate ; acrotarsia 



scutellated. 



Sp. 1. As. palumbarius. 



Falco palumbarius. Shato, v. vii. p. 1 IS. pi. 20. — Falco gen- 

 tilis. Shatv, v. vii, p. 122 — Britain; the northern parts of 

 Europe and Asia. 



