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Adult 5 . ?— Entire upper surfoce of tlie body, heaJ, wings and tail, hair 

 brown, a shade darker on the head Feathers on the cheek and jaw, brown, 

 which colour forms a partial collar on the front of the neck. 



Throat, fore neck, abdomen and under tail coverts, white, with a few brown 

 spots or bars on the latter. 



Neck encircled by a narrow band of white, ail the feathers of which are tipped 

 or edged with brown. 



Breast, flanks and thighs, white, every feather having about three bands of the 

 «ame brown as the back. 



Edge of the wing at the flexure and inner wing coverts, white; many of the 

 feathers with lunated spots of brown. All the quill feathers with broad white 

 bars on their inner webs ; fifth primary longest. 



Upper tail coverts spotted with white. Tail with four or five narrow white 

 bars, and tipped with white. 



Total length of skin, from tip of bill to end of tail, about 15 inches, wing 7, 

 tail 6| Inches. 



Young 9 . ?. Under parts tinged with fulvous or buff. Breast, flanks and 

 thighs with the bands much narrower, and the throat with a more decided 

 brown collar. 



Feathers of the back and wing coverts, with ferruginous and white spots. 

 Upper tail coverts with the white markings more numerous- 

 Superciliary feathers white, tipped with brown. 



Total length of skin, from tip of bill to end of tail, about 14 inches, wing 65, 

 tail 6 inches. 



Hab. Near Jalapa, Mexico. 



This species considerably resembles some stages of plumage of the M. xanfho- 

 thorax (Cuv.) and the M. leucauchen, (Temm.) PI. col. 92, 306, (which are pro- 

 bably identical.) It may readily be distinguished from either of those by the 

 entire absence of the rufous chesnut color of the breast and back, and by the 

 much broader, and lesser number of the bands upon the under surface of the 

 body. 



In the species now described, the character of the white markings of the tail is 

 also different from that of M. xanthothorax or of leucauchen, and more approaches 

 that of the larger species, M. hrachyterus, (Cuv.) These markings are broad and 

 truncated at the shaft of the feather, instead of ending acutely and forming tri- 

 angles, as in those species. 



Two specimens ( 5 and 9 . ? ) were brought by Mr. Pease; a third speci- 

 men of the samfe species, in more adult plumage, was previously received from 

 Paris, in the collections made by Mr. Edward Wilson. 



6. Accipiter fuscus, (Gm.) Falco velox, Wilson, Am. Orn, 45, 46. 



Near Jalapa all the year. The two specimens (nearly adult and young 9 ) 

 brought by Mr. Pease, are perfectly similar to others obtained in the vicinity 

 of this city. In both sfiecimens the tall is quite even, in which respect they 

 differ from Mr. Svvainson's description of A. mexicanus. 



7. Accipiter Conperi, (Bonap.) And. Birds Am. pi. 36, 141. 

 A young male from near Jalapa. 



Dr. Kaup, in the Isis, 1847, page 178, and Mr. Gray, in List of specimens of 

 Birds in the British Museum, give Acciyiter Cooperi (Bonap.) as a synonyme for 



