Accipiter
Accipiter | |
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Collared sparrowhawk, Kobble Creek (Queensland, Australia) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Accipitriformes |
Family: | Accipitridae |
Subfamily: | Accipitrinae |
Genus: | Accipiter Brisson, 1760 |
Synonyms | |
Hieraspiza Kaup, 1844 (but see text) |
Accipiter is a genus of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae. With 51 recognized species it is the most diverse genus in its family. Most species are called goshawks or sparrowhawks, although almost all New World species (excepting the northern goshawk) are simply known as hawks. They can be anatomically distinguished from their relatives by the lack of a procoracoid foramen. Two small and aberrant species usually placed here do possess a large procoracoid foramen and are also distinct as regards DNA sequence. They may warrant separation in the old genus Hieraspiza.[1]
Extant accipiters range in size from the little sparrowhawk (A. minullus), in which the smallest males measure 20 cm (7.9 in) long, span 39 cm (15 in) across the wings and weigh 68 g (2.4 oz), to the northern goshawk (A. gentilis), in which the largest females measure 64 cm (25 in) long, span 127 cm (50 in) across the wings, and weigh 2.2 kg (4.9 lb).[2] These birds are slender with short, broad, rounded wings and a long tail which helps them maneuver in flight. They have long legs and long, sharp talons used to kill their prey, and a sharp, hooked bill used in feeding. Females tend to be larger than males. They often ambush their prey, mainly small birds and mammals, capturing them after a short chase. The typical flight pattern is a series of flaps followed by a short glide. They are commonly found in wooded or shrubby areas.
The genus Accipiter was introduced by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760 with the Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) as the type species.[3][4] The name is Latin for "hawk", from accipere, "to grasp".[5]
Procoracoid foramen[]
The procoracoid foramen (or coracoid foramen, coracoid fenestra) is a hole through the process at the front of the coracoid bone, which accommodates the supracoracoideus nerve. In some groups of birds it may be present as a notch, or incisura; or the notch may be partially or weakly closed with bone. In other groups the feature is completely absent.
The foramen is generally present in birds of prey, but it is absent in most Accipiter hawks that have been studied. This absence is proposed as a diagnostic feature.
A study of accipitrid skeletons found procoracoid incisurae (as opposed to foramina) in some specimens of the eagles Aquila gurneyi and A. chrysaetos, but not in four other Aquila species. The notch was variably open or weakly ossified in Spizastur melanoleucos, Lophoaetus occipitalis, Spizaetus ornatus, and Stephanoaetus coronatus. Also the buteonine hawks Buteo brachyurus and B. hemilasius had incisurae, differing from 17 other Buteo species.[6]
In Circus the foramen was found to be variable, not only within species but even between sides in the same individual. It is usually open or absent but may be closed by "a thread of bone". Research in genetic phylogeny has since indicated that Circus is closely related to Accipiter.
The notch was also absent or indistinct in Harpagus bidentatus.
Urotriorchis macrourus has a well-developed procoracoid foramen, which suggests a separation from Accipiter. It may be related to the chanting goshawks in tribe Melieraxini.[7]
Genetic phylogeny[]
Analysis of molecular genetics indicates that Accipiter is paraphyletic to the Circus harriers, even though the two groups differ in hunting habits and body shape.[8] There are three or four clades of Accipiter, with Circus, Megatriorchis and Erythrotriorchis intermixed.
John Boyd proposes splitting Accipiter into four separate genera: , , Accipiter, and .[9] In this scheme Tachyspiza has the most species, and a reduced Accipiter would have only six: Eurasian sparrowhawk (A. nisus, type species), rufous-breasted sparrowhawk (A. rufiventris), sharp-shinned hawk (A. striatus), white-breasted hawk (A. chionogaster), plain-breasted hawk (A. ventralis), rufous-thighed hawk (A. erythronemius).
- Tribe
- (group 1)
- Erythrotriorchis
- Aerospiza
- Tachyspiza
- (group 2)
- Accipiter
- (group 2a)
- Megatriorchis
- Astur
- Circus
- harriers
- swamp-harriers
- (group 1)
List of Accipiter species[]
There are 51 species in the Accipiter genus.[10]
Common name[a] | Scientific name [b] | IUCN Red List Status | Distribution | Picture | ||
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Status | Trend | Population[c] | ||||
Tiny hawk | Accipiter superciliosus (Linnaeus, 1766) |
LC IUCN[11] | ![]() |
670 - 6,700 | ![]() |
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Semicollared hawk | Accipiter collaris Sclater, 1860 |
NT IUCN[12] | ![]() |
1,500 - 7,000 | Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador | ![]() |
Crested goshawk | Accipiter trivirgatus (Temminck, 1824) |
LC IUCN[13] | ![]() |
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Sulawesi goshawk | Accipiter griseiceps (Schlegel, 1862) |
LC IUCN[14] | ![]() |
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Grey-bellied hawk | Accipiter poliogaster (Temminck, 1824) |
NT IUCN[15] | ![]() |
1,000 - 10,000 | ![]() |
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Red-chested goshawk | Accipiter toussenelii (J. Verreaux, E. Verreaux, and Des Murs, 1855) |
LC IUCN[16] | ![]() |
West and East Africa | ![]() | |
African goshawk | Accipiter tachiro (Daudin, 1800) |
LC IUCN[17] | ![]() |
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Chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk | Accipiter castanilius Bonaparte, 1853 |
LC IUCN[18] | ![]() |
West Africa | ![]() | |
Shikra | Accipiter badius Gmelin, 1788 |
LC IUCN[19] | ![]() |
500,000 - 999,999 | ![]() |
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Nicobar sparrowhawk | Accipiter butleri (Gurney, 1898) |
VU IUCN[20] | ![]() |
2,500 - 5,000 | Nicobar Islands, India | |
Levant sparrowhawk | Accipiter brevipes (Severtzov, 1850) |
LC IUCN[21] | ![]() |
10,000 - 19,999 | ![]() |
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Chinese sparrowhawk | Accipiter soloensis (Horsfield, 1821) |
LC IUCN[22] | ![]() |
100,000 - 499,999 | East and Southeast Asia | |
Frances's sparrowhawk | Accipiter francesiae Smith, 1834 |
LC IUCN[23] | ![]() |
Comoro Islands and Madagascar | ![]() | |
Spot-tailed sparrowhawk | Accipiter trinotatus Bonaparte, 1850 |
LC IUCN[24] | ![]() |
Sulawesi, Indonesia | ![]() | |
Grey goshawk | Accipiter novaehollandiae (Gmelin, 1788) |
LC IUCN[25] | ![]() |
2,500 - 9,999 | Australia | |
Variable goshawk | Accipiter hiogaster (PLS Müller, 1841) |
LC IUCN[26] | ![]() |
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands | ![]() | |
Brown goshawk | Accipiter fasciatus (Vigors and Horsfield, 1827) |
LC IUCN[27] | ![]() |
Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia | ||
Black-mantled goshawk | Accipiter melanochlamys (Salvadori, 1875) |
LC IUCN[28] | ![]() |
670 - 6,700 | New Guinea | ![]() |
Pied goshawk | Accipiter albogularis Gray, 1870 |
LC IUCN[29] | ![]() |
670 - 6,700 | Bougainville, Solomon Islands | ![]() |
White-bellied goshawk | Accipiter haplochrous Sclater, 1859 |
NT IUCN[30] | ![]() |
1,500 - 7,000 | New Caledonia | ![]() |
Fiji goshawk | Accipiter rufitorques (Peale, 1848) |
LC IUCN[31] | ![]() |
670 - 6,700 | Fiji | |
Moluccan goshawk | Accipiter henicogrammus (G.R. Gray, 1860) |
NT IUCN[32] | ![]() |
2,500 - 9,999 | Halmahera, Indonesia | |
Slaty-mantled goshawk | Accipiter luteoschistaceus Rothschild & Hartert, 1926 |
VU IUCN[33] | ![]() |
1,000 - 2,499 | Papua New Guinea | |
Imitator goshawk | Accipiter imitator Hartert, 1926 |
VU IUCN[34] |
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250 - 999 | Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands | |
Grey-headed goshawk | Accipiter poliocephalus (Gray, 1858) |
LC IUCN[35] | ![]() |
New Guinea and surrounding islands | ![]() | |
New Britain goshawk | Accipiter princeps Mayr, 1934 |
VU IUCN[36] | ![]() |
2,500 - 9,999 | Papua New Guinea | |
Red-thighed sparrowhawk | Accipiter erythropus (Hartlaub, 1855) |
LC IUCN[37] | ![]() |
West Africa | ![]() | |
Little sparrowhawk | Accipiter minullus (Daudin, 1800)[38] |
LC IUCN[39] | ![]() |
Southern and East Africa | ![]() | |
Japanese sparrowhawk | Accipiter gularis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1844) |
LC IUCN[40] | ![]() |
East and Southeast Asia | ![]() | |
Besra | Accipiter virgatus Temminck, 1822 |
LC IUCN[41] | ![]() |
20,000 - 200,000 | ![]() |
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Dwarf sparrowhawk | Accipiter nanus (Blasius, 1897) |
NT IUCN[42] | ![]() |
Suwalesi and Buton, Indonesia | ![]() | |
Rufous-necked sparrowhawk | Accipiter erythrauchen Gray, 1861 |
NT IUCN[43] | ![]() |
670 - 6,700 | Maluku Islands, Indonesia | ![]() |
Collared sparrowhawk | Accipiter cirrocephalus Vieillot, 1817 |
LC IUCN[44] | ![]() |
Australia, New Guinea | ![]() | |
New Britain sparrowhawk | Accipiter brachyurus Ramsay, 1879 |
VU IUCN[45] | ![]() |
1,000 - 2,499 | Papua New Guinea | |
Vinous-breasted sparrowhawk | Accipiter rhodogaster (Schlegel, 1862) |
LC IUCN[46] | ![]() |
670 - 6,700 | Sulawesi, Indonesia | ![]() |
Madagascar sparrowhawk | Accipiter madagascariensis Smith, 1834 |
NT IUCN[47] | ![]() |
3,300 - 6,700 | Madagascar | ![]() |
Ovambo sparrowhawk | Accipiter ovampensis Gurney, 1875 |
LC IUCN[48] | ![]() |
Sub-Saharan Africa | ![]() | |
Eurasian sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
LC IUCN[49] | ![]() |
2,200,000 - 3,300,000 | ![]() |
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Rufous-chested sparrowhawk | Accipiter rufiventris Smith, 1830 |
LC IUCN[50] | ![]() |
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Sharp-shinned hawk | Accipiter striatus Vieillot, 1808 |
LC IUCN[51] | ![]() |
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White-breasted hawk | Accipiter chionogaster Kaup, 1852 |
Sub-Saharan Africa | ![]() | |||
Plain-breasted hawk | Accipiter ventralis PL Sclater, 1866 |
Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia | ![]() | |||
Rufous-thighed hawk | Accipiter erythronemius Kaup, 1850 |
Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina | ![]() | |||
Cooper's hawk | Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828) |
LC IUCN[52] | ![]() |
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Gundlach's hawk | Accipiter gundlachi Lawrence, 1860 |
EN IUCN[53] | ![]() |
700 - 900 | Cuba | ![]() |
Bicolored hawk | Accipiter bicolor (Vieillot, 1817) |
LC IUCN[54] | Unknown | 20,000 - 49,999 | ![]() |
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Chilean hawk | Accipiter chilensis Philippi & Landbeck, 1864 |
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Black sparrowhawk | Accipiter melanoleucus Smith, 1830 |
LC IUCN[55] | ![]() |
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Henst's goshawk | Accipiter henstii (Schlegel, 1873) |
VU IUCN[56] | ![]() |
670 - 1,500 | Madagascar | ![]() |
Northern goshawk | Accipiter gentilis (Linnaeus, 1758) |
LC IUCN[57] | Unknown | 1,000,000 - 2,499,999 | ![]() |
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Meyer's goshawk | Accipiter meyerianus (Sharpe, 1878) |
LC IUCN[58] | ![]() |
670 - 6,700 | Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands | ![]() |
Extinct species[]
- Powerful goshawk, Accipiter efficax[59]
- Gracile goshawk, Accipiter quartus[59]
Notes[]
- ^ 51 Accipiter species are listed according to the IOC World Bird List.[10] One species, Lesser Sundas goshawk, which is listed in the IUCN redlist but not the IOC World Bird List is excluded.
- ^ A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Accipiter.
- ^ Estimate for the number of mature individuals in the wild.
References[]
- ^ Olson (2006)
- ^ Raptors of the World by Ferguson-Lees, Christie, Franklin, Mead & Burton. Houghton Mifflin (2001), ISBN 0-618-12762-3.
- ^ Brisson, Mathurin Jacques (1760). Ornithologie; ou, Méthode contenant la division des oiseaux en ordres, sections, genres, espéces & leurs variétés (in French). Volume 1. Paris: Jean-Baptiste Bauche. pp. 28, 310.
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has extra text (help) - ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Volume 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 323.
- ^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
- ^ Olson, Storrs (1988). "Variation in the procoracoid foramen in the Accipitridae" (PDF). Riv. Ital. Orn. 57 (3–4): 161–164. Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- ^ Boyd, John. "Afroaves", Taxonomy in Flux Checklist
- ^ Boyd cites the following sources for the embedding of Circus: Kocum (2006), Griffiths et al. (2007), Lerner et al. (2008), and Nagy and Tökölyi (2014)
- ^ His species-level arrangement is based on: Wink and Sauer-Gürth (2004), Breman et al. (2013), Barrowclough et al. (2014), Nagy and Tökölyi (2014) and Kocum (2006)
- ^ Jump up to: a b Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2019). "New World vultures, Secretarybird, kites, hawks, eagles". World Bird List Version 9.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter superciliosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter collaris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter trivirgatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter griseiceps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter poliogaster". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2014). "Accipiter toussenelii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
- ^ "African Goshawk Accipiter tachiro". Birdlife International. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter castanilius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter badius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter butleri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2013). "Accipiter brevipes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter soloensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter francesiae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter trinotatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2014). "Accipiter novaehollandiae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
- ^ BirdLife International (2014). "Accipiter hiogaster". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter fasciatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter melanochlamys". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter albogularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter haplochrous". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter rufitorques". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter henicogrammus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter luteoschistaceus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter imitator". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter poliocephalus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter princeps". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter erythropus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ "Little Sparrowhawk Accipiter minullus (Daudin, 1800)". Avibase. Deni Lepage. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Accipiter minullus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22695581A93517052. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22695581A93517052.en. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter gularis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter virgatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter nanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2014). "Accipiter erythrauchen". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter cirrocephalus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter brachyurus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter rhodogaster". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter madagascariensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ "Accipiter ovampensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ BirdLife International (2013). "Accipiter nisus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter rufiventris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter striatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter cooperii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter gundlachi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter bicolor". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter melanoleucus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter henstii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2013). "Accipiter gentilis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Accipiter meyerianus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Balouet, J.C.; Olson, Storrs L. (1989). "Fossil birds from Late Quaternary deposits in New Caledonia". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 469 (469): 6–7. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.469. S2CID 129928825.
Further reading[]
- Balete, Danilo S.; Tabaranza, Blas R. Jr. & Heaney, Lawrence R. (2006): An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Camiguin Island, Philippines. Fieldiana Zool. New Series 106: 58–72. DOI:10.3158/0015-0754(2006)106[58:AACOTB]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract
- Heaney, Lawrence R. & Tabaranza, Blas R. Jr. (2006): Mammal and Land Bird Studies on Camiguin Island, Philippines: Background and Conservation Priorities. Fieldiana Zool. New Series 106: 1-13. DOI:10.3158/0015-0754(2006)106[1:MALBSO]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract
- Olson, Storrs L. (2006): Reflections on the systematics of Accipiter and the genus for Falco superciliosus Linnaeus. Bull. B.O.C. 126: 69–70. PDF fulltext. Archived copy.
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