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116a. Accipiter sharpei beniensis Lonnberg Ark. E. Congo, 

 f. Zool., X., No. 24, p. 13 (1917). [Beni, 

 Belgian Congo.] 

 Congo Sparrow-Hawk. 



Larger ; wing S 162 mm. ; tail 146 mm. ; 

 tail with 3 instead of 2 transverse white 

 spots. 



F. Thighs greyish, with traces of bars ; no nuchal 

 collar. 



117. Accipiter hartlaubi (Verr.), in Hartl., Orn. W. Africa 



W. Air., p. 15 (1857). [Casamanze, type in (Senegambia to 



Gurney Coll. (?)] Togoland.) 

 Hartlaub's Sparrow-Hawk. 



Wing ad. 152 mm. ; like A. sharpei above, 

 but no white spots on centre tail feathers ; 

 below, rufous colour paler on sides. 



J. Thighs very pale rufous or ashy to chestnut ; 

 no nuchal collar. 



118. Accipiter virgatus virgatus^ (Temm.), PI. Greater 



Col., i., pi. 109 (1823). [Java, type in Sunda Is., Java, 



Leyden Mus.J N. Borneo, 



Java Sparrow-Hawk. Sarawak. 



Wing <J 162, ? 188 mm. ; above blackish 

 slate ; nape mottled with white ; sides of 

 neck washed with rufous ; tail with 3 black- 

 ish bars ; below chestnut, paler on thighs 

 and more or less barred below breast. 



118a. Accipiter virgahis besra Jerd., Madras Jnl. S. India, 

 Lit. Sci., X., p. 84 (1839). [Soonda Jungles.] Ceylon. 

 Besra Sparrow-Hawk. 



1 A. virgatus rufotibialis Sharpe is a synonym. 



