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116a. Accipiter sharper beniensis Lénnberg Ark. E. Congo. 
f. Zool., x., No. 24, p. 13 (1917). [Benz, 
Belgian Congo. | 
Congo Sparrow-Hawk. 
Larger ; wing ¢ 162 mm.; tail 146 mm. ; 
tail with 3 instead of 2 transverse white 
spots. 
F. Thighs greyish, with traces of bars ; no nuchal 
LZ; 
collar. 
Accipiter hartlaubi (Verr.), in Hartl., Orn. 
W. Air., p. 15 (1857). [Casamanze, type in 
Gurney Coll. (?)] 
Hartlaub’s Sparrow- Hawk. 
Wing ad. 152 mm. ; like A. sharpei above, 
but no white spots on centre tail feathers ; 
below, rufous colour paler on sides. 
G. Thighs very pale rutous or ashy to chestnut ; 
118. 
118a. 
no nuchal collar. 
Accipiter virgatus virgatus! (Temm.), PI. 
Col., i., pl. 109 (1823). [Java, type in 
Leyden Mus. ] 
Java Sparrow-Hawk. 
Wing ¢ 162, 2 188 mm.; above blackish 
slate ; nape mottled with white ; sides of 
neck washed with rufous ; tail with 3 black- 
ish bars ; below chestnut, paler on thighs 
and more or less barred below breast. 
Accipiter virgatus besra Jerd., Madras Jnl. 
Lit. Sci., x., p. 84 (1839). [Soonda Jungles.] 
Besra Sparrow-Hawk. 
1 A. virgatus rufotibialis Sharpe is a synonym. 
W. Africa 
(Senegambia to 
Togoland.) 
Greater 
Sunda Is., Java, 
N. Borneo, 
Sarawak. 
S. India, 
Ceylon. 
