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Synop. Accip., pt. 3, 1922, Errata and Addendum, p. iii (Costa Rica to w. 

 Colombia); Monogr. Birds Prey, i, pt. 5, 1926, 296 (monogr.). — Todd and 

 Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., xiv, 1922, 147 (Las Nubes, Santa Marta, 

 Colombia; crit. on Accipiter foniainieri Bonaparte, which seems to be earliest 

 name of this subspecies). — Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 187 

 (crit.; nomencl.; type in Mus. Comp. Zool.). — Peters, Check-Hst Birds of 

 World, i, 1931, 218 (distr.).— Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxii, 1932, 

 313 (Obaldia, Panama); Ixxviii, 1935, 298 (Panama: — humid tropical zone; 

 3 records). 

 Accipiter exitiosus Stresemann, Journ. fiir Orn., Ixxii, 1924, 436 (crit.; tax.). 



ACCIPITER STRIATUS VELOX (Wilson) 



Eastern Sharp-shinned Hawk 



Adult male. — Forehead blackish plumbeous, with pinkish cinnamon, 

 pinkish-buff, or avellaneous margins to the feathers; crown and occi- 

 put blackish plumbeous to plumbeous-black; nape blackish plumbeous 

 with concealed white bases; remainder of upperparts shading from 

 blackish plumbeous on the upper back to dark or deep plumbeous on 

 the rump and upper tail coverts; tertials with concealed large white 

 and smaller rusty spots, upper tail coverts sometimes narrowly tipped 

 with white, and more or less irregularly barred or marked with white 

 basally. Tail neutral gray above, pallid neutral gray below, white 

 toward the bases of the inner webs of the outer rectrices, narrowly 

 tipped with white and crossed by four bands of grayish fuscous 

 (fuscous to fuscous-black shaded with dark neutral gray), the distal 

 one the widest and the basal one concealed by the upper tail coverts. 

 Cheeks, ear coverts, and sides of neck ochraceous-tawny, avellaneous, 

 light drab, or pinkish buff, with fine but conspicuous blackish shaft 

 lines; chin and throat white to pmkish buff, with conspicuous fine 

 blackish shaft lines; under tail coverts pure white; remainder of under- 

 parts white, irregularly barred with ochraceous-tav/ny, cinnamon- 

 brown, buckthorn brown or cinnamon-buft", usually less dense on the 

 lower abdomen, occasionally with the breast and flanks more or less 

 uniform tawny. Under wing coverts white or pinkish buff, streaked, 

 spotted or occasionally barred with fuscous. Wings fuscous above, 

 shading to deep plumbeous on the inner secondaries, white toward 

 the bases of the inner webs, pallid neutral gray below and broadly 

 barred with dark fuscous or fuscous-black. Bill black or blackish; 

 cere yellow or greenish yellow; iris red; feet yellow. 



Adult female. — Similar to the male, but larger, more fuscous, less 

 gray above, and on the average less brightly colored below. Bill, 

 terminal two-thirds deep black, basal portion pale blue; interior of 

 mouth bright cobalt blue, more purplish far back; cere, rictus, eyelids, 

 and naked "eyebrow" oil green; iris deep orange-red; tarsi and toes 

 brownish lemon yellow; claws jet black. 



