ACCIPITER POLYZONOIDES.— Smith. 
Aves— Plate XI. (Female.) 
A supra cinereus brunneo-umbratus, subtus albus; galk guttureque leviter fusco-subfasciatis ; pectore 
abdomineque rubro-brunneo-fasciatia ; capitis cervicisque lateribus palUde griseia ; remigibus pri- 
mariis pallide brunneia, pogoniis internis nigro-brunneo-fasciatis ; sccundariis griseis, pogonns albo- 
marginatis et fasciis nigro-brunneia notatis ; cauda subtus alba fasciis sex nigro-brunneis instructa. 
Longittjdo 13 unc. 
Colour. — Above, pearl-grey shaded with brown, the latter colour particu- 
larly distinct upon the interscapulars : the feathers of the nape ot the neck are 
pure white except at the points. Space below the eyes, ear coverts and sides 
of the neck dull pearl-grey ; chin and throat white freckled with light brown, 
the latter colour in the form of short indistinct bars. Breast, belly and thighs 
white, closely banded with narrow, slightly undulated, reddish brown bars ; 
vent and under tail coverts pure white. Shoulder coverts dark leaden grey, 
slightly tinged with brown; primary quill coverts dull blackish brown; the 
outer vanes of the primary quill feathers, and the last two-thirds of the inner 
vanes light brown, the first third white ; each of the latter vanes are crossed 
by a number of black-brown bars amounting on the longest feathers to ten 
or eleven in number; the secondaries pearl-grey, the inner vanes broadly 
edged with white in addition to being crossed by several narrow black-brown 
bars. The two centre feathers of the tail and the outer vanes ol the remaindei 
pearl-grey, faintly flushed with brown ; the inner vanes white, and all the vanes 
excepting the outer one of the outermost feather of each side crossed by six 
black-brown bands, the one nearest the point the broadest; on several of the 
inner vanes more or less of the spaces between the bands are of the same 
colour as the outer vanes ; the tips of all the feathers white. The cere and 
le°s light saffron yellow ; bill and claws brownish black, the edge of the 
upper mandible near the angle of the mouth, and the base of the lower one 
j.,11 vellow. Eyes bright orange. 
p * & —Typical • bill strongly arched from the base, and considerably 
compressed festoon of upper mandible only slightly developed; ta*d and 
comp resse 1 , . tlin divisions of the plates and scales of the former 
toes moderately ^ £„ger than the hinder one; the 
scarcely percep ’ compre ssed and pointed. The wmgs when folded 
claws much curv , 0 the fourth quill feather rather 
rencb rather beyond the first halt oi me » / „ . . .. 
the longest, the third and fifth a little shorter and nearly of equal length. 
Tail long and slightly rounded at the point. 
