ACCIPITRES. 
FALCONIM. 
ACCIPITRINiE . 
Gfenus ASTUK. 
Bill stouter than in the last genus, with the culmen not descending so suddenly from the 
base ; festoon tolerably pronounced ; cere large ; nostrils oval, unprotected by bristles ; lores 
scantily plumed. Wings short and rounded, the 4th and 5th quills subequal and longest, the 
first a little longer than half the fifth. Tarsus short, moderately stout, covered in front and 
behind with large transverse scutae, or with a smooth plate in front as in the subgenus Scelospizias. 
Toes short, the inner toe reaching to the last joint of the middle one, the outer one slightly 
longer ; claws well curved and acute. 
ASTITB TBIVIBGATUS. 
(THE CEESTED GOSHAWK.) 
Falco trivirgatus , Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 303 (1824). 
Astur trivirgatus , Cuv. Reg. An. i. p. 332 (1829) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 27; Kelaart’s Prodromus, 
Cat. p. 105 ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1853, xii. p. 104 ; Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 47 • 
Schl. Mus. P.-B. Astures, p. 22; id. Yog. Nederl. Ind., Valkv. pp. 18, 57, pi 10- 
Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 410; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, i. p. 105 (1874). 
Astur palumbarius, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 85 (1839). 
Lophospizia trivirgatus, Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 116; Gurney, Ibis, 1875, p. 35. 
Lophospiza trivirgata, David & Oustalet, Ois. de la Chine, p. 22 (1877). 
Sparrow-Hawk, Europeans in Ceylon. 
Three-streaked Kestrel, Kelaart. 
Gor-Besra , H., lit. “ Mountain Besra ; ” Kokila dega, Tel., lit. “ Cuckoo Hawk ” (apud Jerdon). 
Ukussa, Sinhalese. 
AduU male. Length to front of cere 14-25 to 14-8 inches ; culmen from cere 0-7 to 078 ; wing 7-5 to 8-3 • tail 
6-25 to 7-0; tarsus 2-0 to 2-2; mid toe 1-1 to 1-2, its claw (straight) 0-5 to 0-58 ; hind claw (straight) 077 • 
height of bill at cere 0-45. ' ’ 
Adult female. Length to front of cere 14-8 to 15-0 inches; culmen from cere 0-8; wing 8-0 to 8-5; tail 6-5 to 7-2 ■ 
tarsus 2-2 to 2-4 ; mid toe 1-35, claw (straight) 0-6 ; hind claw 0-85. 
Obs. The above measurements are from a series of Ceylonese and Indian birds, including several examples from 
Malacca, borne birds from Malaya (Borneo, for instance) have the wing more than 9 inches in the female. 
