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Key to the Natural Groups and Species (Adults). 



A. Thighs banded ; no collar round neck. 



t*100. Accipiter nisus nisus (Linn.), S.N., i., p. 92 

 (1758). [Europe =Sweden, apud Hartert]. 

 Common Sparrow-Hawk. 



Wing 3 190-208, 2 230-242 mm. ; above 

 bluish slate ; nape more or less mottled 

 with white ; tail with about 4 darker bands; 

 below white, breast barred with rufous or 

 brown ; flanks rulous. 



Europe^ and 

 W. Asia ; in 

 winter to 

 Algeria, N.E. 

 Africa, India, 

 China. 



100a. Accipiter nisus woUerstorfJi Kleinschm., Sardinia. 

 Orn. MB., ix., p. 168 (1901). [Sardinia, 

 type in Kleinschmidt's Coll.] 

 Sardinian Sparrow-Hawk. 



Smaller ; wing cj 183, ? 215-223 mm. ; 

 darker above, more closely and tliickly 

 barred below. 



100b. Accipiter nisus punicus Erlanger, Orn. MB., 

 v., p. 187 (1897). [Ain-bou- Dries, Tun- 

 isia]. 

 North African Sparrow-Hawk. 



Tunis, Algeria, 

 Marocco. 



Larger ; wing ^ 203-213, $ 243-255 mm. ; 

 above bluer. 



"lOOc. Accipiter nisus nisosimilis Tickell, Jnl. As. 

 Soc. Beng. ii., p. 571 (1833-34). [Borab- 

 hum, India.] 

 Indian Sparrow-Hawk. 



Larger form oi A.n. nisus 

 9. 240-257 mm. 



wing (5 205-215, 



N. and Central 

 Asia, from Tur- 

 kestan to Japan; 

 in winter to 

 India, Kashmir^ 

 Assam, Burma. 



i Kleinschmidt (Falco xiii., p. 24, 1918) has separated the French race as A. 

 nisus gallitB. 



