ACCIPITItES. 



FALCONID^E. 



ACCIPITRIK/E. 



Genus ASTITR. 



Bill stouter than in the last genus, with the culmen not descending so suddenly from the 

 base ; festoon tolerably pronounced ; cere large ; nostrils oval, unprotected by bristles ; lores 

 scantily plumed. Wings short and rounded, the 4th and 5th quills subequal and longest, the 

 first a little longer than half the fifth. Tarsus short, moderately stout, covered in front and 

 behind with large transverse scutse, or with a smooth plate in front as in the subgenus Scelospizias. 

 Toes short, the inner toe reaching to the last joint of the middle one, the outer one slightly 

 longer ; claws well curved and acute. 



ASTUK TEIVIEGATUS. 



(THE CRESTED GOSHAWK.) 



Falco trivirgatus, Temm. PL Col. i. pi. 303 (1824). 



Astur trivirgatus, Cuv. Reg. An. i. p. 332 (1829) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 27; Kelaart's Prodromus, 



Cat. p. 105 ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1853, xii. p. 104 ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 47; 



Schl. Mus. P.-B. Astures, p. 22; id. Vog. Nederl. Ind., Valkv. pp. 18, 57, pi. 10; 



Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 410; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, i. p. 105 (1874). 

 Astur palumbarius, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 85 (1830). 



Lophospizia trivirgatus, Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 116; Gurney, Ibis, 1875, p. 35. 

 Lopliospiza trivirgata, David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 22 (1877). 

 Sparrow-Hawk, Europeans in Ceylon. 

 Three-streaked Kestrel, Kelaart. 



Gor-Besra,H., lit. " Mountain Besra ; " Kokila dega, Tel., lit. " Cuckoo Hawk " (apud Jerdon). 

 Ukussa, Sinhalese. 



Adult male. Length to front of cere 14 - 25 to 14 - S inches; culmen from cere 07 to 0*78; wing 7'5 to S\3 ; tail 

 6-25 to 7-0; tarsus 2-0 to 2-2; mid toe 1-1 to 1*2, its claw (straight) 0-5 to 0-58; hind claw (straight) n-77 ; 

 height of bill at cere - 45. 



Adult f email-. Length to front of cere 14-8 to 15-0 inches; culmen from cere - 8; wing 8*0 to 8 - 5 ; tail 6-5 to 72 ; 

 tarsus 2-2 to 2-4; mid toe 1-35, claw (straight) 0-6; hind claw 0-85. 



Obi. The above measurements are from a series of Ceylonese and Lidian birds, including several examples from 

 Malacca. Some birds from Malaya (Borneo, for instance) have the wing more than 9 inches in the female. 



