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Austin, Mem. Nuttall Orn. Club, No. 7, 1932, 61, in text (distr.).— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Auk, Ixi, 1944, 444 (nomencl.). — Haecker, Moser, 

 and SwENK, Nebraska Bird Rev., xiii, 1945, 8 (Nebraska; rare winter vis.; 

 6 records). — Arvey, Univ. Kansas Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., i. No. 10, 1947, 198 

 (Idaho). 



Accipiter geniilis slriatulus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, i, 1931, 208. — 

 VAN RossEM, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, li, 1938, 99, in text (Pacific North- 

 west; or it.). 



Accipiter striatulus Stresemann, Journ. fiir Orn., Ixxii, 1924, 437 (tax.; distr.). 



Asiur atricapillus henshawi Nelson, Auk, i, 1884, 166 (t.vpe loc. not designated; 

 "Pacific coast region, from southern Arizona to Sitka, Alaska")- — Palmer, 

 Condor, xxx, 1928, 282, in text (patronymics). 



Accitiper atricapillus striatus Nice, Bird-Banding, ix, 1938, 106, in text (Califor- 

 nia; nesting habits). 



Accipiter gentilis Moore, Condor, xl, 1938, 24, in text (Sinaloa; 2 spec). — 

 Fisher, Auk, Ixii, 1945, 126, 127, 128 (flight and musculature). — Ingles, 

 Condor, xlvii, 1945, 215, in text (Sequoia National Park, Calif.). — Sutton, 

 Condor, xlvii, 1945, 264 (Fairbanks, Alaska, winter). — Spofford, Auk, Ixiii, 

 1946, 87, in text (feather patterns of remiges). 



Accipiter geniilis gentilis van Tyne, Auk, Ix, 1943, 267, in text (plumage; Red 

 Bay, Labrador). 



Accipiter gentilis apache van Rossem, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, li, 1938, 99 

 (Paradise, Cochise County., Ariz., July 10, 1918; chars, ad. and yg.); Occ. 

 Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ., No. 21, 1945, 53 (Sonora; 1 spec). 



ACCIPITER GENTILIS LAINGI (Taverner) 



Queen Charlotte Goshawk 



Adult. — Like that of Accipiter gentilis atricapillus but faintly to 

 distinctly darker, the breast averaging sootier gray, usually with 

 numerous broad shaft streaks; the blackish of the crown and occiput 

 extending posteriorly over the nape and interscapulars. 



Juvenal. — Like that of A. g. atricapillus but darker, the ventral 

 streaks very broad and heavy on a light background that averages 

 somewhat darker than in atricapillus; above practically solid rich dark 

 brown with little or no light feather edging or semicoacealed markings. 



Natal down. — Not described. 



Adult male. — Wing 312; tail 233; culmen from base 30; tarsus 74; 

 middle toe without clavv' 43 mm. (1 specim.en) .^^ 



Adult jemale.—Wmg 325-340 (332.3) ; tail 243-259 (249.7) ; cul- 

 men from base 33-35 (34) ; tarsus 77-80 (78.3) ; middle toe without 

 claw 46-52 (48 mm.) (3 specimens). 



Range. — The islands off the coast of British Columbia, from the 

 Queen Charlottes to Vancouver. On the latter island the birds begin 

 to show intergradation toward atricapillus. 



Type locality. — Massett, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. 



"Four Juvenal males have the following dimensions: Wing 292-324 (303); 

 tail 223-255 (235); culmen from base 30-32 (31); tarsus 71-75 (72.7); middle 

 toe without claw 40-44 (42.7 mm.). 



Two Juvenal females have wings 312, 319; tail 228, 237, tarsus 71.5, 73 mm. 



