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Show 129 central streak and a few feathers on the lower part black 5 fore neck and chest rufous, like the hind neck, the center varied with black and white; rest of under surface white, with very broad and distinct bars of jet- black on the flanks and thighs, smaller and less distinct in the center of the body 5 under wing- coverts and axillaries white like the breast, and similarly barred with black; quills brown, barred above with darker brown, the under surface ashy white, with a few greyish-black cross- bars; tail ashy brown, with four broad black bars, equally distinct on the under surface, which is ashy white 5 bill horn- brown, yellowish at base; feet yellow. Total length 19 inches, culmen 1.3, wing 11, tail, 8.5, tarsus 2.4. ( Mus. Lugd.)"-( SHAEPE, I c.) According to Sclater ( Ibis iv, 1862, p. 194), the iris is dirty gamboge-yellow ; ring round eye and lores dark yellow, verging toward olive-green } superciliary shield olive- green; cere grayish- green; bill grayish- blue and black; tarsi and toes dirty gamboge- yellow; claws black. [ Fide PELZELN.) Mr. Gurney gives some very interesting notes on this species in the Ibis, vol. v, 1875, pp. 350- 7, which we reproduce here:-" As the Leyden specimen, of which the measurements are given by Mr. Sharpe, and that at Antwerp, of which the dimensions " were recorded by Dr. Sclater in c The Ibis' for 1861, appear by their size to be both female birds, I add the following particulars of the supposed male which is preserved in Norwich:- wing from carpal joint 9.1 inches; tarsus 2.1; middle toe, 8. n. 1.3; culmen from anterior margin of cere 5. It will be seen by these measurements of the culmen and middle toe, that, according" to the rule given by Mr. Sharpe at p. 47 of his'Catalogue,' this species comes rather under his genus Accipiter than under that of Astur ; its natural position appears to me to be intermediate between the Asturine subgenus Lophospizias and the Accipitrine subgenus Coop-trastur, to which it was referred ( and, on the whole, I think rightly) by Bonaparte in the Rev. et Mag. de Zool. for 1854,. p. 538." |