ACCIPITEE BADIUS. 



(SHIKRA.) 



The Brown Haiok, Brown, 111. Zool. p. 6, pi. 3 (1776). 



Falco Melius, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 280 (1788, ex Brown). 



Falco brownii, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. pt. 1, p. 161 (1809). 



Sparvius badius (Gm.), Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. x. p. 318 (1817). 



Falco dussumieri, Temm. in PI. Col. i. pis. 308, 336 (1824). 



Nisus dussumieri (Temm.), Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 59 (1831). 



Astur dussumieri (Temm.), Cuv. Eegne Anim. i. p. 332 (1829). 



Accipiter dussumieri (Temm.), Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 79. 



Accipiter dukhunensis, Sykes, ut supra. 



Accipiter badius (Gmel.), Strickl. Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 33 (1844). 



Accipiter scutarius, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844). 



Accipiter fringillaroides, Hodgs. nt supra. 



Astur badius (Gm.), Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 190. 



Astur bifasciatus, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exp. p. 70, pi. 20 (1848). 



Micronisus badius (Gm.), Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 33 (1850). 



Msus badius (Gm.), Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 538. 



Astur cenchroides {badius, GmJ, Heugl. var. major), Severtzoff, Turk. Jevotnie, p. 63 (1873). 



Micronisus poliopsis, Hume, Str. Feath. ii. p. 325 (1874). 



Astur poliopsis (Hume), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. i. p. 110 (1874). 



Scelospizias badius (Gm.), Gurney, Ibis, 1875, p. 357. 



Scelospizias poliopsis (Hume), Gurney, Ibis, 1875, p. 361. 



Accipiter cenchroides (Severtz.), Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 104. 



Astur {Micronisus), sp., Blanford, E. Pers. ii. p. 108 (1876). 



Scelospizias badius cenchroides (Severtzoff), Bianchi, Melang. Biolog. xii. p. 667 (1886). 



Accipiter brevipes, St. John, Ibis, 1889, p. 152 (nee Severtzoff). 



Micronisus cenchroides (Severtz.), Zarudny, Becherch. Zool. Transcasp. p. 44 (1890). 



Kyrgui, Tekke {fide Zarudny) ; Shikra 2 , Chipka or Chippak 6 , H.; Kathia $ , Tunna 6 , 

 Nepal; Jali dega, Tel.; Chinna tvallur, Tam. ; Vkussa, Kurula goya, Cing.; Ting-Kyi, 

 Lepcha; TJ-cham, Bhot.; Thane, Burm. {fide Blanford). 



Figurce notabiles. 

 Brown, 111. Zool. pi. iii.; Temm. PI. Col. 308, 336; Peale, U.S. Expl. Exp. pi. xx. 



Ad. suprsi cinerascens, collo postico rufescente, torque collari indistincte formante: remigibus saturate 

 cinereis versus apicem nigricantibus, in pogonio interno ad basin albidis nigro-fusco transfasciatis : 

 rectricibus mediis cinereis immaculatis, reliquis nigro-fusco transfasciatis; capitis lateribus pallidi- 



