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Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but less brightly marked 

 on the underparts. Differs from the female of A. s. velox in being 

 smaller and grayer, less fuscous above, pure white on the lower 

 abdomen, and more narrowly and regularly barred on the breast. 



Immature male. — Similar to that of A. s. velox but the feathers of 

 the back, the scapulars and the upper tail coverts without concealed 

 white spots; the streaks on the lower parts slightly darker, less tawny 

 or cinnamomeous. 



Immature female (none seen). — Probably similar to the male, but 

 larger. 



Natal down. — ^Apparently unknown. 



Adult male.—Wing 141-153 (149); tail 120-128 (124); culmen from 

 the cere 10-10.5 (10.3); tarsus 45.5-48.5 (47.5); middle toe without 

 claw 29.5-31.5 (30.3 mm.) (5 specimens). 



Adult female.—Wing 181-186 (182.3); tail 147.5-155.5 (151.7); 

 culmen from the cere 12.5-13.5 (13); tarsus 51.5-55.5 (53.3); middle 

 toe without claw 35-39 (36.5 mm.) (6 specimens). 



Range. — Haiti and the Dominican Repubhc; resident chiefly in the 

 forested hills of the interior where locally common. 



Type locality. — Haiti. 



Accipiter striatus Vieillot, Ois. Am4r. Sept., i, 1807, 42, pi. 14 (Santo Domingo). — 

 Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxiii, 1910, 77 (syn.; crit.). — Strese- 

 MANN, Journ. fur Orn., Ixxii, 1924, 436 (crit.; tax.). 



Accipiter striatus striatus Wetmore, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xxvii, 1914, 

 120 (Honduras, Catare, and Miranda, Santo Domingo; Lecoup, near Port 

 au Prince, Haiti; characters; crit.). — Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixi, 

 1917, 399 (Bulla). — Swann, Monogr. Birds Prey, i, 1926, 289 (monogr.).— 

 Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ixxx, 1928 (1929), 492 (distr.; 

 habits; Haiti).— Danforth, Auk, xlvi, 1929, 361-362 (La Vega). — Moltoni, 

 Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat.,'^lxviii, 1929, 310 (San Juan). — Peters, Check-list 

 Birds of World, i, 1931, 221.— Wetmore and Swales, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 

 155. 1931, 108 (Hispaniola; habits; distr.). — Wetmore and Lincoln, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., Ixxxii, art. 25, 1933, 20 (La Hotte, Tiburon Peninsula; 

 Haiti).— Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936,414 (West Indies) ; Check List Birds 

 West Indies, 1940, 21 (West Indies, Hispaniola; locally not uncommon); 

 ed. 2, 1945, 21 (Hispaniola; not uncommon). 



Accipiter fuscus striatus Swann, Synopt. List Accip., pt. 1, 1919, 31, footnote 

 (Haiti); Synop. Accip., ed. 2, 1921, 52 (Santo Domingo). 



Accipiter striatus striatus Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 63, in text (Hispaniola; 

 desc. ; distr.). 



Sparvius striatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., x, 1817, 325 (Santo Domingo) ; 

 Encycl. M6th., iii, 1823, 1265-1266 ("Saint Domingue"). 



N^isus striatus Hartlatjb, Isis, 1847, 609. 



Falco viellotinvs Shaw, Gen. Zool., vii, pt. 1, 1809, 204 (Santo Domingo; based on 

 Le Petit Malfini Sonnini's ed. of BufFon.) 



Nisus fuscus (not Falco fuscus Gmelin) Cory, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 

 154 (Haiti). 



Accipiter fringilloides (not of Vigors, 1827) Cory, Birds Haiti and San Domingo. 



