514 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Scales much higher tlian long, very closely imbricated, becoming: 

 very small on nape ; abont 30 scales before dorsal; lateral line much 

 decurved anteriorly. 



Peritoneum briglit silvery. 



Head 4 in length"; depth 2|. 13. 8, A. II, 10 or 11 ; Lat. 1. 40. 



Color olivaceous, everywhere thickly dusted with fine black specks, 

 lighter on belly and bf^low ; no dark stripe on back ; snout and upper 

 anterior protile dusky ; traces of orange red along scales of belly. Fins 

 all jet black, most Intense on anterior rays of vertical fins, and on outer 

 rays of paired fins. Caudal i)aler. Some of the scales along sides 

 still showing tine tubercles, which in life doubtless covered sides of body 

 and top of head. 



The specimen serving as type of this description is an adult male, 3 

 inches long, from Shunganunga Creek. A smaller female specimen is 

 also in the collection from the same locality. This latter is filled with 

 rii)e spawn, the depth being 3^ in length. The profile rises in an al- 

 most straight line from snout to base of dorsal, and the fins are uni- 

 formly pale, with the exception of a dark spot at base of anterior dorsal 

 rays. No trace of this dusky blotch is visible in the male. 



Type specimen numbered 36613 on the catalogue of the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum. 



Indiana Univeesity, September 26, 1884. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NETV RACE OF THE RED-SHOfJl^DERED HAWK 



FROin FLORIDA. 



By ROBERT RIDGl^AY. 



Buteo lineatus alleni, siibsp. nov. 



SuBSP. CHAR. — Smaller than B. lineatus, the adult much paler in 

 color, with no rufous on upper parts, except ou lesser wing-coverts; the 

 young decidedly darker than in true lineatus. 



Adult male (type, No. 99538, Tampa, Fla., May 20, 1878) : Head and 

 neck above brownish ash-gray, the feathers with very distinct blackish 

 shaft-streaks ; all the feathers white at the base, this showing, in places, 

 ou the occiput, where the feathers are decidedly darker than ou the 

 crown ; some of the feathers slightly tinged with ochraceous. Back 

 and scapulars ash-gray, each feather with a large terminal spot (occu- 

 pying most of the exposed portion) of dusky brown ; the longer scapu- 

 lars barred, chiefly on the concealed portion, with white and light gray- 

 ish. Lesser wing-coverts bright rufous, varied with dusky shaft-streaks; 

 middle and greater wing-coverts brownish gray, transversely spot- 

 ted and barred with white; secon<laries similar, but darker terminally, 

 broadly tipped with white, and crossed by three bands of the same; 

 primaries dusky, the outer webs distinctly spotted with white. Tail 

 brownish black, narrowly tipped with white, and crossed by two narrow 



