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heavily marked below (only slightly more so than the darkest ex- 

 amples of cooperii). Feet somewhat heavier. 

 Natal doivn.. — Not known. 

 Adult male.— Wmg 247-250; taU 197-205; culmen from cere 16-17.5; 



tarsus 67.5-70; middle toe without claw 43-46 mm. (2 specimens). 

 Adult female. — Wing 268; tail 237; culmen from cere 21; tarsus 79; 



middle toe without claw 53 mm. (1 specimen). 



Range. — Cuba, especially in the lowland forests; now possibly nearly 



extinct. 



Type locality. — Handbana, Cuba. 



Astur cooperi (not Falco cooperii Bonaparte, 1828) Lembeye, Mena. Soc. Real 

 Econ. Habana, ser. 2, vi, No. 5, 1849, 333; Aves Cuba, 1850, 17.— Cabanis, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, p. Ixxxii (Cuba). — Gundlach, Journ. ftir Orn., 1861, 

 403 (Cuba; crit.). 



Accipiter cooperii Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba). 



Nisus pileatus (not Falco pielatus Temminck, 1823) Lembeye, Aves Cuba, 1850, 

 Suppl., 125. 



Astur pileatus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1854, p. Ixxxii (Cuba; crit.). — Gundlach, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 403 (Cuba; crit.). 



Accipiter pileatus Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba). 



Accipiter mexicanus (not of Swainson, 1832) Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist, vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba). 



Accipiter gundlachi, Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1860, 252 

 (Hand.bana, Cuba; coll. G. N. Lawrence). — Albrecht, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 

 200. — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 322; Repert. Fisico Nat. Cuba, 

 i, 1865-66, 224; Journ. fur Orn., 1871, 367 (crit.); Cat. Aves Cubana, Anal, 

 Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., ii, 1873, 100; Contr. Orn. Cubana, 1876 (=1873), 

 42; Orn. Cubana, 1895, 22.— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 33, No. 319.— Scla- 

 ter and Salvin, Exotic Orn., pt. 11, 1867, 170; Norn. Av. Neotr, 1873, 

 120.— Cory, List Birds West Indies, rev. ed., 1886, 22; Auk, iv, 1887, 40 

 (descr.; syn.) ; Birds West Indies, 1889, 198; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 

 10, 98, 128. — Sharps, Hand-list, i, 1899, 252. — Stresemann, Journ. fur Orn., 

 Ixxii, 1924, 437 (tax.; distr.). — Swann, Monogr. Birds Prey, i, p. 5, 1926, 

 294 (monogr.).— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, i, 1931, 216 (distr.).— 

 Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 61, 62, in text, 63, 414 (Cuba; rare but widely 

 distr.; Oriente, Pinar del Rio, Cienaga de Zapata); List Birds West Indies, 

 1940, 22 (Cuba); ed. 2, 1945, 22 (very rare).— Barbour, Mem. Nuttall Orn. 

 Club, ix, 1943, 33 (Cuba; rare). — Conover, Fieldiana, xxxi, 1946, 41 (plum.; 

 specimen taken 1935). 



Accipiter cooperi b. gundlachi Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 335 (syn.). 



Accipiter cooperi gundlachi Swann, Synopt. List Accip., pt. 1, 1919, 32; ed. 2, pt. 

 i, 1921, 53. 



Accipiter gundlachii Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., 1, 1874, 137, footnote. — 

 Barbour, Mem. Nuttall Orn. Club, No. 6, 1923, 45 (Cuba).— Phillips, 

 Verh. 6th Internat. Orn. Kongr., 1929, 517 (Cuba; on way to extinction). 



Accipiter (Cooperastur) gundlachii Gurney, List Diurn. Birds Prey, 1884, 44. 



Nisus cooperi, var. gundlachi Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 223 (descr. young; synonymy). 



Nisus gundlachi Ridgway, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1875, 86 (monogr.) ; 

 U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr., ser. 2, Bull. 2, 1876, 104 (monogr.). 



Cooperastur gundlachii Gurney, Cat. Birds Prey, 1894, 22, 33 (crit.). 



