220 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 



Length: Female, 12 to 14; male, 10 to 11 inches. Wing: female, 8 to 

 9 ; male, 7^ to S. Tail : female. 5 to oi ; male, 5. 



fi«5.— Tern Iterate Xorth America, Mexico, Central America, North- 

 ern South America. Cuba. Jamaica, Bermuda, Ecuador, Venezuela. 



A frequent visitor, always in the autumn and winter mouths. Hardly 

 a year passes without a few stragglers appearing. I saw one flying 

 over Devonshire Swamp on the 2d November, and obtained a beautiful 

 male from the same place on the 3d December, 1874. 



Sub-genus TIX^^UNCULUS, Yieil. 



82. Falco sparverkis, Linn. American Sparrow-Hawk. 



Falco sparvvrius. Liun, Gin., Lath., Daud., Wils., Cut., Jard., Brewer, Bp., 



Sw. & Eicli., Xntt., Aud., Yieil., and late authors. 

 FaJco (Thuiuncidus) sparverius, of some authors, Eidg., B. B. &R. 

 TinnymcitJvs sparverius, Yieil, Gray, Bp., Cass, Cones, and many authors. 

 Cerchneis sjmrveriiis, Boie, Bp. 

 PacUonis eparverius. Kaup. 



Length, 11 to 12; wing, 7 to 7^; tail, 5 to 5 J. 



Hah. — The whole of North America and southward (Coues), 



Only one recorded, shot near the Sluice Ponds on the 9th December, 



1853, while in the act of pouncing on some chickens (Nat. in B., p. 24). 



Sub-family BUTEONIN^. 

 Genus Buteo, Cuv. 



83. Buteo borealis, (Gm.) Vieil. Eastern Eed-tailed Buzzard; Hen- 



Hawk. 



Falco iorealis, Gm., Lath., Daud., "\Vils., Sabine, Bp., Wagl., Nutt., Aud. 

 Buteo horealis, Yieil, Sw. & Rich., Yig., Less., Jard., Brewer, Bp., Aud., Gosse, 



Cass., and late authors. 

 Astur borealis, Cuv., Sw. 

 PoRcilopternis borealis, Kaup. 

 Buteo (Craxirex) horealis, Gray. 

 Falco lererianus, Gm., Lath, Daud., Shaw, Wils. 

 Falco jarnaicensis, Gm. 

 Buteo ferrugineicaudus, Yieil, Cuv. 

 Accipiter ruficandus, Yieil. 

 Buteo fulvKs, Yieil. 

 Buteo americanus, Yieil. 



Female : Length, 22 to 24; wing, 15 to 16; tail, 8^. Male : Length, 

 19 to 21; wing, 14; tail, 7^ to 8. 



Rab. — Whole of North America, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica (Coues). 



Mr. Barti'am has one specimen, an adult, with fine chestnut tail, shot 

 at Baylis's Bay, about twelve years ago, by a man named Hollis, who 

 is still residing in the islands, the same who shot the two Peregrine 



