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*77b. Astur badius poliopsis (Hume), Stray 
Feathers, ii., 1874, p. 325. [N. Pegu.} 
Hume’s Shikra. 
Larger than A. badius badius; above 
[ey 
78. 
darker grey; below with broader and 
brighter vinous bands. 
Astur badius cenchroides Severtz., Turkist. 
Jevotn., p. 63 (1873). [Russian Turkestan]. 
Severtzow s Shikra. 
Wing ¢ 198, tail 165 mm.; wing 2 215, 
tail 180 mm. ; tail slightly longer and more 
definitely barred; below with paler cross 
bars. 
Astur brevipes Severtz., Bull. Soc. Imp. 
Nat. Moscou, xxiii, p. 234, tab. 1.-iii. 
(1850). [Govt. Woronesch, S. Russia.] 
Levant Shikra. 
Larger ; wing ¢ 215-222, 2 230-240 mm. ; 
mantle blackish slate; bars below paler 
salmon colour; under wing-coverts dis- 
tinctly barred. 
Astur sphenurus sphenurus (Riipp.), Neue 
Wirb., p. 42 (1835). [Dahlak I., near 
Massaua, Red Sea.) 
Riippell’s Goshawk. 
Wing ¢ 178, 2 192-204 mm. ; above clear 
bluish ashy, below as in A. badius badius, 
but under wing-coverts buffy white, with 
faint dusky cross bars ; tail with 7 black 
bands instead of 6. 
Assam, Burma, 
Tenasserim, 
Siam, 
Indo-China, 
Formosa. 
Central Asia 
(Turkestan), 
Baluchistan, 
E. Persia and 
Punjab, Sind 
(winter). 
Central Russia, 
Dalmatia, 
Greece, Turkey, 
Asia Minor, 
Persia, Syria, 
Egypt. 
N.E. Africa, 
Sudan to 
Senegambia, 
Sierra Leone, 
Nigeria. 
