180. ACCIPITER VIRGATUS (Temminck).
INDIAN SPARROW HAWK.
- Falco virgatus Temminck, Pl. Col. (1823), 1, pl. 109.
- Accipiter virgatus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 150 (part); Hand-List (1899), 1, 253; Everett, Ibis (1895), 38.
- Accipiter gularis McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 41 (part).
Palawan (Everett). Southern India, Ceylon, Andamans, and Greater Sunda Islands.
“Adult male.—Above deep blackish slate-color, the nape slightly mottled with white, the crown and wing-coverts a little darker; quills dark brown, shaded with slate-color, without any bars above, the under surface paler and more ashy, inclining to pale rufous near the base of inner web, with blackish cross-bars; tail ashy gray above, whitish ashy beneath, paler at tip, and crossed with three bars of slaty black; ear-coverts and sides of neck slaty gray, the latter washed with rufous; fore part of cheeks and throat buffy white, with a few indistinct blackish shaft-lines here and there; rest of under surface bright vinous-chestnut, much paler on the thighs; abdomen and under tail-coverts white; under wing-coverts rich ocherous, the lower ones and the axillars irregularly barred with brownish. Cere yellow; bill black, lead-color at base; feet pale orange-yellow; iris yellow. Length, 279; culmen, 19; wing, 168; tail, 129; tarsus, 48.
“Adult female.—A little larger than the male. Length, 330; wing, 188; tarsus, 56.” (Sharpe.)
181. ACCIPITER MANILLENSIS (Meyen).
PHILIPPINE SPARROW HAWK.
- Nisus manillensis Meyen, Beitr. (1834), 694, pl. 9.
- Accipiter virgatus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1874), 1, 150 (part).
- Accipiter manillensis Grant, Ibis (1897), 212; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 254; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 41.
- Accipiter stevensoni Tweeddale, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 938, pl. 57.
Cebu (McGregor); Guimaras (Bourns & Worcester); Leyte (Whitehead); Luzon (Heriot, Whitehead, McGregor); Mindanao (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, Goodfellow); Mindoro (Everett, Porter); Negros (Steere).