A CCI PITRES. 
FALCONIDiE. 
accipitrina. 
Genus ACCIPITER. 
Bill slightly shorter and more feeble than in Asfwr ; festoon equally prominent. Nostrils 
large, oval, protected by the loral plumes. Wings similar to Astur , but the first quill longer ; 
tail longer. Tarsi long, slender, the scutse less pronounced ; middle toe long, the inner reaching 
only to the first joint. Structurally of slender form. 
ACCIPITER VIRGATUS. 
(THE JUNGLE SPARROW-HAWK.) 
Falco virgatus, Temm. PL Col. i. pi. 109 (1823). 
Accipiter virgatus , Vig. Zool. Journ. i. p. 338 (1824); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 22 
(1849); Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 52; Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 132; Jerd. Ibis, 1871, 
p. 243; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 411 (first record from Ceylon); Hume, Stray 
Feathers, 1874, p. 141 ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 10, and 1875, p. 276 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, 
i. p. 150; Gurney, Ibis, 1875, pp. 480-83; David and Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, 
p. 26 (1877). 
JVisus virgatus, Less. Man. d’Orn. i. p. 97 (1828); Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. Ind., Yalkv. pp. 20, 
59, pi. 12. figs. 1-4 (1866). 
Accipiter stevensoni, Gurney, Ibis, 1863, p. 447, pi. xi. 
Accipiter lesra, Jerd. Madr. Journal, x. p. 84 (1839); id. 111. Ind. Orn. pi. 4 (1847). 
The Besra Sparrow-Hawk, Jerdon; Besra, popularly in India. 
Besra (female), Dhoti (male), Hind. ( apud Jerdon). 
Jungle-IIawk, Europeans in Ceylon. 
Yao, Chinese at Pekin (Pere David). 
Ukussa, Sinhalese. 
Adult male (Ceylon). Length to front of cere 10-0 to 1 0*3 ; culmen from cere 05 ; wing 6-0 to 6-4 ; tail 4-6 to 5-0 : 
tarsus 1-9 to 2-05 ; middle toe 1*2 to 1-25, its claw (straight) 035 to 0-4 ; height of bill at cere 0-27. 
Ins yellow ; cere, loral skin, and eyelid yellow ; the top of the cere sometimes greenish ; bill dark horn, base and near 
the gape bluish ; front of tarsus greenish yellow ; posterior part with the sides of the toes and the soles lemon- 
yellow. 
In the fully aged bird the head, hind neck, back, and wings are very dark ashen, the head deeper than the rest and 
concolorous with the cheeks and ear-coverts ; frequently a brownish wash is perceptible on the back ; the hind neck 
