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RAPACES. 

 Family FALCONIBJEl. 



Sub-o^enus Micronisus. 



C A LCUTTA SPARROW-HAWK. 



Falco hadms. 



Micronisus badius, 

 Falco hadius, 

 " dussumierii. 



Hodgson. Blyth. Bonapaete. 



Gmelin. 



Temminck; Nee Jerdon vel 



Sykes. 

 Gray. 

 Hodgson. 

 Hodgson. 



Accipite7' hadius, 

 " scutarius, 



" fringillaroides, 

 Browns Hawk, 



Calcutta Spar7'oiv-I£awl', 

 and Chippuch Falcon, Latham. 



SkiJcra (female,) Chippuch (male,) Of Hindostan. 

 Kathia (female,) Tunna, (male,) Of Nepal. 



Specific Characters. — Upper plumage dark reddish brown to 

 pale ash. grey, according to age ; below grey white, thickly barred 

 transversely in both sexes with ferruginous. Length of male 

 eleven inches and three quarters ; carpus to tip seven inches and 

 a fifth ; tarsus two inches. Length of female thirteen inches and 

 two fifths ; carpus to tip eight inches ; tarsus two inches in the 

 dry skin. 



