BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 201 



Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 120 (Cuba).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Miis., i, 1874, 

 135, footnote (Cuba); Hand-list, i, 1899, 252, part (Cuba).— Gtjrney, List 

 Diurn. Birds Prey, 1884, 42; Cat. Birds Prey, 1S94, 30 (crit.).— Cory, List 

 Birds West Indies, rev. ed., 1886, 22, part (Cuba) ; Auk, 1887, 41, part (Cuba) ; 

 Birds West Indies, 1889, 199, part (Cuba); Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 

 10, 48, part (Cuba). — Barbour, Mem. Nuttall Orn. Club, No. 6, 1923, 45 

 (Pico Turquino near Guanabacoa, San Diego de los Banos, and Bayamo, 

 Cuba); No. 9, 1943, 33 (Cuba; rare). — Stresemann, Journ. fiir Orn., Ixxii, 

 1924, 436 (crit.; tax.).— Phillips, Verb. 6th luternat. Orn. Kongr., 1929, 

 517, in text, part (Cuba; rare). 



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

 1914, 120 (Guantanamo, Guamd, San Diego de los Banos, and Bayamo, 

 Cuba; characters). — Swann, Monogr. Birds Prey, i, 1926, 289 (monogr.). — 

 Peters, Check-list Birds of World, i, 1931, 221.— Bond, Birds West Indies, 

 1936, 63, in text (Cuba; descr.) 414; Check List Birds West Indies, 1940, 

 21 (Cuba; rare, but widely distributed); ed. 2, 1945, 21 (rare). 



Accipiter fuscus fringilloides Swann, Synopt. List Accipt., pt. 1, 1919, 31 part 

 (Cuba); Synop. Accip., pt. 1, 1921, 52 (Cuba). 



Nisus fringilloides d'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Aves, 1839, Spanish 

 ed., p. 31; French ed., p. 18.— Poey, Mem. Real. Soc. Econ. Habana, ser. 



2, vi, no. 2, 1848, 100.— Lembeye, Aves Cuba, 1850, 128.— Ridgway, 

 U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr., ser. 2, Bull. 2, 1876, 117 (monogr.). 



Nisus fuscxis var. fringilloides Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 



North Amer. Birds, iii, 1874, 223. 

 Nisus fuscus (not Falco fuscus Gmelin 1788) Lembeye, Aves Cuba, 1850, 16, pi. 



3, fig. 1. — Cabanis, Journ. ftir Orn., 1854, p. Ixxxiii (Cuba).— Gundlach, 

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



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

 Astur fuscus Lembeye, Mem. Real Soc. Econ. Habana, ser. 2, vi, No. 5, 1849, 



333 (Cuba). 

 Accipiter velox (not Falco velox Wilson 1812) Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 24. — 



Barbour, Mem. Nuttall Orn. Cl., 6, 1923. 45. 

 i^aZcofeZox Lembeye, Mem. Real Soc. Econ. Habana, ser. 2, vi, No. 5, 1849, 333 (Cuba). 

 (?) Nisus pensylvanicus Poey, Mem. Real Soc. Econ. Habana, ser. 2, vi, No. 2, 



1848, 100 (Cuba). 

 (?) Falco pensylvanicus Lembeye, Mem. Real Soc. Econ. Habana, ser. 2, vi. 



No. 5, 1849, 333 (Cuba). 



ACCIPITER STRIATUS VENATOR Wetmore 



Puerto Rican Sharp-shinned Hawk 



Adult male. — Similar to that of A. s. striatus, but upperparts darker 

 (dusty neutral gray) ; dark bands on tail heavier and more distinct 

 (even more distinct than in A. s. velox), and only slightly narrower 

 than the pale interspaces; underparts more deeply colored; thighs 

 more rufescent; black shaft streaks on chin and throat more heavily 

 defined. Bill black; cere blackish slate; tarsus and toes dusky gray- 

 green; inside of toes yellowish; claws black. (From dried skin.) Wing 

 144; tail 122; culmen from cere 10.5; tarsus 44; middle toe without 

 claw 28 mm. (1 specimen). 



Adult female. — Not known. 



Immature. — Not known. 



