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Regerhinus uncinatus Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885, 23; rev. ed., 1886, 23 

 (Grenada); Auk, iv, 1887, 48 (Grenada); Birds West Indies, 1889, 206 (Gre- 

 nada); Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 98 (Grenada). — Wells, List Birds 

 Grenada, 1886, 6 (Grenada); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mas., ix, 1887, 622 (Gre- 

 nada). — Maynard, Cat. Birds West Indies, 1898, 8 (Grenada and Antilles). — • 

 Clark, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, xxxii, 1905, 243 (Grenada, res.). 



Chondrohierax uncinatus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, i, 1931, 200, part 

 (Grenada). 



Chondrohierax uncinatus mirus Friedmann, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., xxiv, 

 1934, 313 (orig. descr. ; range; Grenada, West Indies).^ — ^Bond, Birds West 

 Indies, 1936, 69, 70, text (West Indies; Grenada; descr.), 413; Check List 

 Birds West Indies, 1940, 20 (Grenada; rare; possibly in Trinidad?); Check 

 List Birds West Indies, ed. 2, 1945, 21 (rare). 



CHONDROHIERAX WILSONH (Ca&sin) 



Wilson's Kite 



Adult male.^'' — Above dark plumbeous, slightly paler on the head, 

 all the feathers with concealed white bars toward their bases, those 

 of the upper tail coverts tipped with paler plumbeous; sides of face 

 uniform deep plumbeous; chin and throat white, faintly barred with 

 plumbeous; remainder of underparts white barred %vith dark plum- 

 beous, tinged with ferruginous, the bars becoming narrower and more 

 widely spaced posteriorly; primaries and secondaries fuscous, \i\ih. 

 v/hite on the basal halves of their inner webs, distantly barred with 

 fuscous-black, bordered with cinnamon-rufous on the inner webs of 

 the inner feathers; tail plumbeous-black, white at base, tipped with 

 mouse gray, and crossed by three light bars, Avhich are mouse gray 

 distally and which become narrower and more white basally, particu- 

 larly on their inner webs, which are usually pure white; bill (dried 

 skin) pale greenish yellow to yellowish white, inclining to bluish horn 

 color at base; iris yellowish glaucous; feet lemon yellow. 



Adult female. — Above fuscous, narrowly edged with ta\vny, and 

 with concealed white bars to the bases of the feathers; entire under- 

 parts, as well as a broad muchal collar, white or pale buff, barred with 

 russet or chestnut, the barring on the chin, sides of face, and upper 

 tliroat being the narrowest; primaries and secondaries deep fuscous 

 shading through cinnamon-rufous, to white toward the bases of the 

 inner webs, distantly barred with fuscous-black; tail fuscous-black, 

 basally white, tipped with hair brown or drab, and crossed by four 

 light bars, which are hair brown, shading through cinnamon-rufous 



®^ In the original description the gray bird is described as the female and the 

 brown bird as the male, but in two more recent specimens (Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology), a gray bird is scced male and a brown bird female. Since there is 

 now no question that in C. uncinatus uncinatus gray birds are male it is probable 

 that in this species also the gray birds are male and the brown birds female. 



