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Accipiter fuscus fuscus Swann, Synopt. List Accip., pt. 1, 1919, 31, part; Synop. 

 Accip., pt. 1, 1921, 52, part. 



Accipiter velox Ameuican Ornithologists' Union, Check-list 1886, and ed. 2, 

 1895, No. 332, part; ed. 3, 1910, 155, part.— Ridoway, Man. North Amer. 

 Birds, 1887, 227, part.— Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, i, 1892, 

 186, part. — Fisher, Hawks and Owls United States, 1893, 32, part. — 

 Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., v, 1909, 209 (imm. Bear Bay, 

 Baranof Island, Alaska, Aug. 26; Hasselborg Lake, Admiralty Island, nest 

 and eggs. May 25; seen Hooniah, Chichagof Island, Glacier Bay, and Helm 

 Bay, .se. Alaska); v, 1910, 386 (Port Nell, 4 specs.. Knight Island, and near 

 Valdez, se. Alaska). — Swarth, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vii, 1911, 60 

 (se. Alaska: Kupreanof Island, nest; Kuiu Island, Prince of Wales Island, 

 Coronation Island, Heceta Island, Dall Island, Duke Island, Chickarain 

 River, Revillagigedo Island, Mitkof Island, Thomas Bay, Port Snettisham, 

 Taku River; in winter to southern California). — Patch, Can. Field Nat., 

 xxxvi, 1922, 133 (Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands; 6 spec, Masset 

 and Tow Hill, July 5-August 9). — Brooks, Auk, xl, 1923, 221 (spec; 

 Graham Island, Brit. Columbia, Aug.). — Munroe, Can. Field Nat., xxxviii, 

 1924, 175 (s. Vancouver Island, plum., 12 spec). — Brooks and Swarth, 

 Pacific Coast Avif., No. 17, 1925, 54 part (coastal areas, British Columbia: 

 Vancouver Island; Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands).— Taverner, Birds 

 Western Canada, 1926, 188, part. — Cumming, Murrelet, xii, 1931, 16 (Queen 

 Charlotte Islands; Brit. Columbia; nesting; spec). 



Accipiter velox velox American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 4, 1931, 

 65, part. — Cumming, Murrelet, xiii, 1932, 6 (Vancouver, Brit. Columbia). 



Accipiter slriatus velox Peters, Check-list Birds of World, i, 1931, 221, part. — 

 Brodkorb, Condor, xlii, 1940, 123, in text (Hazelton, Brit. Columbia; 

 spec). 



Accipiter velox rufilatus Ridgwat, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., xi, 1888, 92, part. 



Accipiter fuscus rufilatus Swann, Sj'nopt. List. Accip., pt. 1, 1919, 31, part. 



Accipiter velox pacificus Swann, Monog. Birds Prey, i, 1926, 288, part. 



Accipiter striatus perobscurus Snyder, Occ Pap., Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., 

 No. 4, 1938, 4 (orig. descr.; crit.).— Brodkorb, Condor xlii, 1940, 123-124 

 (spec, Hazelton, Brit. Columbia; also Portland and Tillamook, Oreg.). — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Auk, Ixi, 1944, 444 (nomencl.). 



ACCIPITEB STRIATUS STRIATUS VieiUot 



Haitian Sharp-shinned Hawk 



Adult male. — Similar to that of A. s. velox, but smaller and with 

 little or no pale edgings to the forehead; crown and occiput hardly 

 any darker than the remainder of the upperparts, which are more 

 slate color, less plumbeous; banding on tail not sharply defined. 

 Cheeks, ear coverts, and sides of neck russet, or tawny with only 

 faint shaft streaks; sides of breast, flanks, and tibiae uniform, or 

 heavily barred with sayal brown; chin and throat white, tinged with 

 rusty and narrowly streaked with black; lower abdomen and under 

 tail coverts pure white; remainder of underparts barred with sayal 

 brown, mixed with hair brown, the bars narrower and more regular 

 than in A. s. velox. Bill leaden, tip black; cere pale green; iris reddish 

 brown; tarsi greenish; toes yellow. 



