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Show 1867.] DR. J. J. KAUP ON NISI AND ASTURES. 171 Fig. 1. Teraspiza tinus. 1. TERASPIZA VIRGATA, Reinw. Falco virgatus, Reinw. Temm. Pl. Col. 109 ( <f ). Accipiter affinis, Hodgs., Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 81. A. nisoides, Blyth, Journ. A. S. B. Nisus virgatus, Cuv. Reg. An. p. 334 ; Schleg. Valkv. t. 12. N. minutus, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 60. N. gularis, Schleg. Fn. Jap. pl. 2, et Mus. d. P.-B. Ast. p. 33. Nisus (Teraspiza) virgatus, Kp. Falc. p. 172. 2. TERASPIZA RHODOGASTER, Schl. Nisus rhodogaster, Schleg. Valkv. t. 12. N. virgatus rhodogaster, Schleg. Mus. d. P.-B. Ast. p. 32. Represents T. virgata in Celebes. To these must be added 3. TERASPIZA MINULLA, Daud., of the Cape colony, with white bars on the upperside of the tail; and the 4. TERASPIZA TINUS, Lath., of South America, which is of the same size, and has no spots on the tail, nor any white upper tail-coverts. TACHYSPIZA, Kaup. Beak bent abruptly from the swollen cere; with a round tooth coming low down, and separated from the point of the beak by a sharp incision ; seen in profile it overlaps the front half of the lower beak. Point of the wing very long, rather less than secondaries, and equal to eleven twenty-sixths of the length of the entire wing. Third primary the longest; first to third primaries distinctly emarginated on the inner vane ; fourth primary indistinctly emarginated |