484 
ACCIPITRES. 
a Madras ( T. C. Jerdon) 1845. — b India (E. Blyth) 1846, 
— c India (“ Circus swainsoni ” E. Blyth) 1846. 
c seems certainly to belong to this species and not to C. swainsoni 
(sive macrurus) under which it is placed in the ‘ Ornithological 
Synonyms/ , 
2367. Circus assimilis. 
Circus assimilis , Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn. i. pi. 51: Strickl. 
Orn. Syn. p. 155: Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 63. 
a, — b New South Wales (M c Donald) 1838. — c Australia 
[Arthur Strickland). 
a stands in the ‘Ornithological Synonyms’ as C. jardinii a name 
synonymous with C. assimilis. 
2388. Circus xnaculosui. 
Aquila maculosa, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. i. p. 28*, pi. 3 bis. 
Circus maculosus, Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 155: Sharpe, Cat. 
B. i. p. 62. 
a Brazil (Arthur Strickland). 
2369. Circus cinereus. 
Circus cinereus , Vieill. N. Diet. d’Hist. N. iv. p. 454: Strickl. 
Orn. Syn. p. 156: Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 56. 
a Chili (Arthur Strickland). 
SUBFAMILY. — BUTEONINiE. 
Asturina. 
Asturina, Vieillot, Anal. p. 24 (1816). 
2370. Asturina nitida. 
Falco nitidus, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 41. 
Asturina nitida , Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 41: Scl. & Salv. 
P. Z. S. 1869, p. 130: Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 203. 
a Brazil? (Argent) 1852. 
2371. Asturina plagiata. 
Asturina pi agiata, Sclil. Mus. d. Pays-Bas, ii. Asturince, p. l: 
Scl. & Salv. Ex, Orn. p. 179, pi. 90; Sharpe, Cat. B. i. p. 204, 
