16 Mr. E. Blyth on the Birds of India. 
minutus, Lesson*. F. minutus (?), L. F. brissonianus (?), 
Shaw. 
Hab. India generally, but chiefly the hilly parts; also Malasia : 
rare and accidental in Lower Bengal. 
Genus Micronisus, G. B. Gray. 
47. M. badius (PL Col. 308,336). 
Syn. Falco badius, Gmelin. F. brownii , Shaw. F. dussu- 
mieriy Temm. (not of Sykes's nor Jerdon's Catalogues). Acci¬ 
piter dukhunensisy Sykes. A.scutarius etA.fringillaroides, Hodg¬ 
son. Nisus malayensisy Meyer. Calcutta Sparrow-Hawk and 
Chippuck Falcon , Latham. 
Hab. India generally; Indo-Chinese and Malay countries, 
being very numerous throughout India and Ceylon : not uncom¬ 
mon in Afghanistan; Cashmere; Assam; Siam; China?f 
Genus Astur, Bechstein. 
48. A. palumbarius (PI. Enl. 418,423, 461; Gould's B. E. 
Pl- 17)- 
Syn. Falco palumbarius et F. gentilis, L. F. gallinarius, 
Gmelin. F. albescens, Bodd. Accipiter astur, Pallas. Astur 
gallinarum, Brehm. 
Hab. Europe and Asia; rare in N. Africa: in India con¬ 
fined, or very nearly so, to the sub-Himalayas. 
( Lophospiza, Kaup.) 
49. A. trivirgatus (PI. Col. 303). 
Syn. Falco trivirgatus, Beinwardt. A. indicus, Hodgson. 
A. palumbarius, apud Jerdon, Catal. A. cristatus, G. B. Gray. 
Spizaetus rufitindus, McClelland. 
Hab. India, Indo-China, and Malasia; being confined to the 
hilly parts. 
* Referred by Dr. Pucheran to “ Nisus soloensis,” in the Rev. Zool. 
1850, p. 210,—a species assigned by him to Sumatra on the authority 
of Duvaucel, and to the Coromandel coast and Ceylon on that of Lesche- 
nault, but which I have never seen or heard of even from the Malayan 
peninsula. 
t Vide note to Accipiter nisus, p. 14. 
