BIRDS OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE. 
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1664. ( 1246 ) Astur trivirgatus rufitinctus. The Great Crested 
Goshawk. 
Spizaetus rufitinctus McClelL, P.Z.S., 1839 p. 153 
(Assam). 
N. India, Burma to Formosa and Hainan. 
1665. ( 1247 ) Accipiter nisus nisosimilis. The Asiatic Sparrow- 
Hawk. 
Falco nisosimilis Tick., J.A.S.B., ii., p. 571 (1833), 
(Bengal, Borabhum). 
Breeding Turkestan to Japan. Winter India, etc. 
1666. ( 1247 ) Accipiter nisus melanoschistus. The Indian 
Sparrow-Hawk. 
Accipiter melanoschista Hume, Ibis, 1869, p. 356 
(Kotegarh). 
Himala 3 ’as, Kashmir to Assam and N. Burma, etc. ‘ 
1667. Accipiter gularis. The Japanese Sparrow-Hawk. 
Astur gularis Temm. & Schleg. in Sieb., Faun., Jap., p. 5 
(1845), (Japan). 
Breeding N. E. Asia. Rare straggler to Burma in 
Winter. 
1668. ( 1248 ) Accipiter virgatus besra. The Besra Sparrow- 
Hawk. 
Accipiter besra Jerd., Madr., Jour. L.S., x., p. 84 (1839) 
(S. India). 
S. India and Cejdon. 
1669; Accipiter virgatus affinis. The Larger Besra 
Sparrow-Hawk. 
Accipiter afifinis J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc., p. 81 (1844) 
(Nepal). 
Himalayas from Pindi to Assam, Burma, China, etc. 
1670. ( 1249 ) Pernis cristatus ruficollis. The Indian Crested 
Honey-Buzzard. 
Pernis ruficollis Less., Traite d'Orn., p. 76 (1831), ( Bengal), 
India, Ceylon, Burma, Malay Pen. to Siam and S. China. 
1671. ( 1250 ) Machasrhampus alcinus. The Slender-billed Pern. 
Westermann, Bigd. t. d. Dierk, i. (2), p. 29 (1851), 
(Malacca). 
S. Tennasserim, Malay Pen. to New Guinea. 
