114a. 
*115. 
115a. 
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Accipiter ventralis nigriplumbeus Lawr., 
Ann. Lyc. N.Y., ix., p. 270 (1869). [Quito 
Valley, Ecuador.) 
Plumbeous Sparrow-Hawk. 
Wing 3 172 mm.; above and below 
plumbeous ; abdomen mixed with ferru- 
ginous rufous. 
Accipiter rufiventris rufiventris Smith, S. 
Afr. Q. Jnl., i., p. 231 (1830). [Baviaan’s 
River.] 
African Sparrow-Hawk. 
Wing 3 203, 9 238 mm. ; above deep slate ; 
nape mottled with white ; side of face and 
under surface tawny rufous. 
Accipiter rufiventris perspicillaris Riipp., 
_ Neue Wirb. Vog., p. 41, pl. 18, f. 2 (1836). 
116. 
[Gondar, Abyssinia. ] 
Abyssinian Sparrow-Hawk. 
Wing § 195-200, 2 230 mm.; slightly 
darker below. 
Accipiter sharper sharpeit Reich., Vég. 
Afrikas, i., p. 564, pl. 2 (1901). [Gaboon ?] 
Sharpe’s Sparrow-Hawk. 
Aboce slaty black, lower upper tail-coverts 
white ; tail with 2 bars of white on inner 
webs ; below chestnut. 
Ecuador and 
Peru. 
S. Africa, N. to 
Katanga 
(Belg. Congo) ; 
Togoland. 
Abyssinia. 
W. Africa, 
Cameroon to 
Benguela. 
1 Accipiter batesi Sharpe (Bull. B. O. C., xiii., p. 50, 1902) from Cameroon is 
said by W. Sclater to be the Q of this form, but see [bis 1921, p. 105 
