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however, it is not uncommon on both sides of the mountain-chain, and is also found as 
high as 8000 feet on the Volcan de Fuego. Mr. Townsend met with it at Trujillo near 
the coast of Honduras; and Mr. Richardson has sent us a good series of examples from 
Matagalpa and its neighbourhood. These latter include adult specimens of both sexes, 
showing that in this state the upper plumage is dark slate-colour, and not dark brown 
as in the bird figured in ‘ Exotic Ornithology.’ 
— 5. Accipiter tinus. 
Falco tinus, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 50°. 
Accipiter tinus, Gray, Gen. Birds, i. p. 29, t. 10°; Salv. P. Z.S. 1867, p. 158°; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. i. p. 189‘; Cherrie, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 537 , 
Accipiter collaris (nec Kaup), Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 462°. 
Supra griseo-fuscus, capite summo obscuriore ; alis nigricantibus, fusco indistincte fasciatis: subtus gula alba, 
pectore, abdomine toto et tectricibus subcaudalibus albis, schistaceo frequenter transfasciatis ; subalaribus 
albis, nigricante maculatis ; remigibus subtus fuscis, albo transfasciatis; cauda schistacea, nigro quadri- 
fasciata, rectricibus externis in pogonio externo albo maculatis: rostro nigro, cera et pedibus flavis. 
(Descr. maris ex Remedios, Colombia. Mus. nostr.) 
© mari similis, sed major. 
Juv. Supra cinnamomeo-rufus, capite summo nigricante: subtus albus, rufo transfasciatus; cauda rufa, fasciis 
sex nigricantibus notata. 
Hab. Nicaragua, Greytown (Alfaro®); Panama, Santiago de Veraguas (Arcé *), Line 
of Railway (M*Leannan®).—South AMERICA generally, to Guiana and Brazil +. 
This, the smallest of South-American Sparrow-Hawks, is widely spread over the 
southern continent, occurring in Colombia and thence eastwards to Guiana and 
southwards to Eastern Brazil. In Central America it is apparently much more rare, 
and it has, so far as we know, only been met with three times, twice in the State of 
Panama and once in Nicaragua. The only specimen received by us came from 
Santiago de Veraguas, and is a young bird in its rufous plumage, which it was changing 
for the ash-colour of the adult when shot. ‘fhe specimen secured by Don A. Alfaro at 
Greytown, in Nicaragua, was an adult male >, 
This Hawk is well figured in Gray’s ‘ Genera of Birds,’ but hardly anything has been 
recorded of its habits. | 
It is an isolated species, so far as its American congeners are concerned, but it has a 
strong general resemblance in its style of coloration to the African A, minullus. 
GERANOSPIZIAS. 
Ischnosceles, Strickland (nec Burmeister), Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1844, xiii. p. 400. 
Geranospiza, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 183; Ridgw. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 276. 
Geranospizias (nom. emend.), Sundevall, Av. Tent. p. 107 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. i. p. 80. 
A peculiar genus of uncertain affinities, but restricted to the Neotropical region, the 
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