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Buteo borealis (siibsp.?) Howell, Auk, xxxviii, 1921, 256 (Roj'al Palm Hammock, 



Fla. ; uncommon). 

 Buteo jamaicensis umbrinus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, i, 1931, 231, part. — 



Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 66, in text (West Indies; descr.; distr.), 414; 



Check List Birds West Indies, 1940, 22 (West Indies; Bahamas, not common) ; 



ed. 2, 1945, 23. — Housse, El Hornero, viii, 1941, 47, in text, part (Florida). 



BUTEO JAMAICENSIS SOLITUDINIS Barbour 



Cuban Red-tailed Hawk 



All plumages similar to those of Buteo jamaicensis umbrinus, but 

 smaller. 



Adult male.—Wing 357-382; tail 213-230; culmen from cere 27.5; 

 tarsus 87-90; middle toe without claw 45.2-45.5 mm. (2 specimens). 



Adult female.— Wmg 397-412; tail 250-252; culmen from cere 

 29.2-30; tarsus 88-88.5; middle toe without claw 45-46 mm. (2 

 specimens) . 



Range. — Resident in Cuba and the Isle of Pines. 



Type locality. — Soledad, near Cienfuegos, Cuba. 



Falco borealis (not of Gmelin) Lembeye, Aves Cuba, Suppl. (1850), 18, pi. 1, fig. 1 



Buteo borealis Poey, Mem. Real Soc, Econ. Habana, ser. 2, vi, No. 2, 1848, 100 

 (Cuba). — Lembeye, Mem. Real. Soc. Econ. Habana, ser. 2, vi. No. 5, 1849, 

 333 (Cuba). — Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., ii, 1854, Ixxxii (Cuba). — Brewer, 

 Proc. Boston Soc. Hist., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba). — Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 

 ix, 1861, 402 (Cuba; crit.); Rep. Fisico Nat. Cuba, i, 1865-1866, 233; Journ. 

 ftir Orn., xix, 1871, 365 (Cuba; habits); Cat. Aves Cubana, Anales Soc. Esp. 

 Hist. Nat., ii, 1873, 99; Contr. Orn. Cubana, "1876" ( = 1873), 41; Orn. 

 Cubana, 1895 ed., 19. — ^Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885, 22, part (Cuba); 

 rev. ed., 1886, 22, part (Cuba; ; Auk, iv, 1887, 39, part (Cuba) ; Birds West 

 Indies, 1889, 197, part (Cuba); Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 99, part 

 (Cuba;. 



Buteo (Poecilopternis) borealis Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., ix, 1861, 322 (Cuba). 



Buteo borealis calurus (not Buteo calurus Cassin) Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. 

 Nat Hist., iv, 1892, 294 (s. Cuba; crit.). 



Buteo borealis umbrinus Peters, Bull. Mus. Corap. ZooL, Ixi, 1917, 400, part 

 (meas.). — Oberholser, Auk, xxxv, 1918, 207, part. — Swann, Synopt. List 

 Accip., pt. 2, 1919, 48, part; Synop. Accip., ed. 2, 1922, 79, part. — Barbour, 

 Mem. Nuttall Orn. Club, No. 6, 1923, 46 (Lomas de los Acostas and Pinar 

 del Rio, w. Cuba). — Swann, Monogr. Birds Prey, i, 1926, 396, part. — 

 Rutter, Ardea, xxiii, 1934, 116 (Cuba; Soledad). 



Buteo jamaicensis umbrinus Peters, Check-list Birds of World, i, 1931, 231, part. 



Buteo borealis solitudinis Barbour, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., viii, 1935, 

 207 (Soledad, near Cienfuegos, Cuba). — Stone, Auk, lii, 1935, 479, in text. — 

 Barbour, Mem. Nuttall Orn. Club, No. 9, 1943, 34 (Cuba). 



Buteo jamaicensis solitudinis Bond, Check List Birds West Indies, 1940, 22 

 (West Indies; Cuba (rather rare); Isle of Pines, very rare); ed. 2, 1945, 22; 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, xciv, 1942, 91 (Cuba; numerous in wooded 

 areas) . 



