Ori some species of Birds from Cuba. 435 



Frontis plumae brunnescentes, fusco striatal ; occipitis nuchccqae 

 parce albo notatae; gula genarumque albae, brunnescenti-fusco 

 graciliter striataj ; pectoris abdominisque albae, brunnescenti-fusco 

 fa.sc'iSL\2& ; femorum crissique alba*. Remiges cinereo-brunneae ; 

 primarurn pogoniis internis ad basin, secundariarum per totam 

 fere longitudinem, albo marginatis, fasciis septem sublunaribus 

 fuscis notatis ; subtus pallidiores. Tectrices superiores apice le- 

 viter brunnescenti notatae; inferiores albae. iJec^nce* ad apicem 

 pallidae ; intermediae omnes fasciis quinque fuscis notatae ; duanim 

 externarum pogoniis externis sine not^, internis tribus fasciis 

 fuscis quatuorque maculis, duas fascias interruptas fingentibus, 

 notatis ; subtus albescentes, ut superne fusco-notatse. Rostrum 

 unguesque nigri. Pedes flavi. Longitudo corporis, 10^ ; 9'ostriy | ; 

 alee a carpo ad remigena 4^*"", 6 ; caudce, b\ ; tarsi, 2^. 



I find no description in any authour which exactly corresponds 

 with this delicate Sparrow Hmak. There are several small species 

 however of the Falconidce, described by Dr. Latham and others, 

 to which the bird before us may probably belong, the difference 

 which it exhibits being perhaps attributable to age or sex. It 

 would be dangerous nevertheless to refer the bird to any one of 

 these, as besides the uncertainty respecting the species, we can 

 not be confident that we should refer it even to the same genus ; 

 no clue being given in the descriptions to which I allude, by 

 which we can determine whether the birds described are Hawks 

 or Falcons, Our bird is a genuine Accipiter, and typical in the 

 group. The description of Falco minutus, Linn.,* comes the 

 nearest to it ; this bird, however, is alleged to have been found in 

 Malta, and as it has been passed over without notice by M. 

 Temminck in his account of the birds of Europe, I conclude it to 

 be a nominal species, perhaps a variety of the common Sparrow 

 Hawk, 



3. Falco Sparverius. Linn,, Si/st. Nat, I. p. 128. no. 20. 



Little Falcon, Lath., Gen. Hist. I. p, 290, no. 238. 



Emerillon de St. Domingue. PI. Enl. 665. <^. 



Emerillon de Cayenne. lb. 444. $, 



American Sparrow-Hawk. Wilson, Am, Orn, 11. p. 117, 

 pi. 16. f. 1. p.— IV. p. 57.pl. 32. f. 2. ^ . 



* Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 50. No. 121. Accipiter minor. Briss. Tom. I. p. 315. 

 t. 30. f. 1. 



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