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bluish ; below more reddish and lighter, 

 with narrow and nearly obsolete whitish 

 bars. 



98d. Astur fasciatus insularis, F. Sarasin, Novae New Caledonia 



Caledonia Zool. Aves, p. 8 (1913). [New New Hebrides, 



Caledonia. \ Loyalty Is. 

 New Caledonia Goshawk. 



Wing 225-230 mm. ; imder wing-coverts 

 reddish isabelline, barred with blackish 

 brown. 



Gen. XXVI. NISOIDES Pollen (1866). 

 Type N. moreli Poll. 



Hinder aspect of tarsus scaled; commissure of 

 bill perfectly straight. 



99. Nisoides moreli Pollen, Bull. Soc. Sc. R^un., W. Coast of 

 1866, p. 62. [Madagascar, type in Lej'den Madagascar. 

 Mus.J 

 Morell's Goshawk. 



Wing (J 152 mm. ; above slaty black ; nape 

 and base of scapulars mottled with white 

 and upper tail-coverts tipped with same ; 

 tail with about 8 darker bands ; below 

 white barred with rufous brown ; throat 

 streaked with black. 



Gen. XXVII. ACCIPITER Briss. (1760). 

 Type by taut. Accipiter accipiter Briss. [= A. nisus.J 



Bill with distinct festoon to cutting margin of 

 upper mandible ; nostrils oval ; tarsus long, 

 slender and smooth ; toes long and slender, par- 

 ticularly the middle one, which is more than 

 twice ridge of bill (without cere). Maximum 

 size S, 15.8; ?, 18 in. Minimum <?, 8.8; 

 ?. 10.5 in. 



