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lOOd. Accipiter nisus pallens Stejn., Pr. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus., xvi.. p. 625 (1893). [Prov. of Hitachi, 

 Japan, type in Sci. Coll. Mus., Tokyo.] 

 Kamtschatkan Sparrow-Hawk. 



Above lighter and greyer, with dark shaft 

 stripes ; dark tail bands nearly obsolete ; 

 below barred with greyish. 



Kamschatka, 

 Japan. 



*100e. Accipiter nisus teneriffa Laubmann, Ver- 

 handl. Orn. Ges., xi., p. 164 (1912). 

 [Teneriffe, type in Laubmann's Coll.] 

 Teneriffe Sparrow-Hawk. 



Insular race [with light and dark phases.] 

 wing <J 197, ? 231 mm. 



Teneriffe. 



lOOf. Accipiter nisus melanoschistus Hume, Ibis, 

 1869, p. 356. [Kotgarh, Simla.\ 

 Himalayan Sparrow-Hawk. 



Larger ; wing S 203-213, ? 245-259 mm. ; 

 blackish slaty above, darkest on head and 

 nape ; bars on tail broad and pronounced ; 

 below with bars broad and decided. 



Himalayas,from 

 Kashmir to 

 Assam, Thibet,^ 

 Kansu, Burma. 



lOOg. Accipiter nisus granti Sharpe, Ann. &. Mag. Madeira. 

 N.H. (6), v., p. 483 (1890). [Madeira, 

 type in B. M.] 

 Madeiran Sparrow-Hawk. 



Smaller ; wing 3 188-198, ? 221-231 mm. ; 

 above blackish brown ; below white, barred 

 with greyish black. 



i A. n. ladygini Bianchi (Ann. Mus. St. Petersb. viii., p. ii, 1903) seems to be 

 identical with melanoschistus. 



