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narrow cinnamon tips to the feathers, white bases to the feathers 

 of the nape, and concealed white spots on the scapulars and tertials. 

 Underparts white, broadly streaked on the breast with dark, and 

 with fine blackish shaft streaks on the chin, throat, and breast; 

 tibiae light ochraceous-buff with traces of lighter barring; wings as in 

 adult; tail as in adult, but without the whitish tips. 



Adult male.—Wing 160-175 (168.1); tail 125-145 (134.1); culmen 

 from cere 10.5-10.8 (10.6); tarsus 48-52 (50.2); middle toe without 

 claw 30-32 (31.1 mm.) (4 specimens). 



Adult female. — Wing 198; tail 162; culmen from cere 12.5; tarsus 

 57; middle toe without claw 37 mm. (1 specimen). 



Range. — Honduras (Truxillo), Guatemala, Nicaragua and El 

 Salvador (Los Esesmiles and San Jose del Sacare), wherever pine 

 forests occur; local in the tropical zone on both coasts, common in 

 the subtropical zone, and on the high mountains of western Guatemala 

 in the temperate zone. 



TyjJe locality. — Coban, Guatemala. 



Nisus (sen Accipiter) chionogaster Kaup, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1852, 41 

 (Cobdn, Guatemala; coll. Derby Mus.); Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, x, 

 1852, 451 (descr. repr.). 



Nisus chionogaster Ridgwat, U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr., ser. 2, Bull. 2, 

 1876, 122 (monogr.; Medio Monte, Vera Paz, Savana Grande, and Volcdn 

 de Fuego, Guatemala). 



Accipiter chionogaster Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. Zool., vi, 1854, 538. — Sclater 

 and Salvin, Exotic Orn., pt. 2, 1867, 27, pi. 14; Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 

 120, part (Guatemala). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., i, 1874, 148, part 

 (Guatemala); Hand-list, i, 1899, 253. — Gurnet, List Diurn. Birds Prey, 

 1884, 42; Ibis, 1875, 476, in text (meas. of female); Cat. Birds Prey, 1894, 

 22.— Ridgwat, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 583 (Truxillo, Hon- 

 duras). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1899, 50 

 (Cobdn, Choctum, Lanquin, San Ger6nimo, Volcdn de Fuego at 8,000 feet, 

 Medio Monte, Savana Grande, and Sierra de las Minas, Guatemala; Truxillo, 

 Honduras; Matagalpa, San Rafael del Norte, Santa Cruz, and Rio Coco, 

 Nicaragua). — Dearborn, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 125, 1907, 

 82 (Tecpam, Guatemala, 8,500 feet). — -Swann, Synopt. List Accip., pt. 1, 

 1919, 35 (Guatemala; Nicaragua).— Stresemann, Journ. fiir Orn., Ixxii, 

 1924, 436 (crit., tax.). — Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ixxxiv, 

 1932, 299 (Honduras; Cantarranas, and Truxillo). — Griscom, Ibis, 1935, 

 810, in text (Guatemala; Sierra de las Minas; spec; distr.). 



Accipiter chionigaster Grat, Hand-list, i, 1869, 32, No. 307. 



Accipiter chionogaster chionogaster Swann, Synopt. List. Accip., ed. 2, pt. 1, 

 1921, 58 (Guatemala; Nicaragua); Monogr. Birds Prey, i, 1926, 317 

 (monogr.). — Griscom, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Ixiv, 1932, 152 (distr.; 

 Guatemala). 



Accipiter erythronemius chionogaster Peters, Check-list Birds of World, i, 1931, 

 221. — VAN Rossem, Birds of El Salvador, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 zool. ser., xxiii, 1938, 108-109 (El Salvador-Los Esesmiles and San Jose del 

 Sacare; colors of soft parts; habits). 



