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tion of Haitian records with the present subspecies is therefore wholly 

 on geographic grounds. 

 Tyjpe locality. — Cuba. 



(?) Ashir latissimus Poey, Mem. Real Soc. Econ. Habana, ser. 2, vi, No. 2, 1848, 

 100 (Cuba). 



Buteo lattissiimiis Lembeye, Mem. Real Soc. Econ. Habana, ser. 2, vi, No. 5, 

 1849, 333 (Cuba). 



Buteo latissimus Lembaye, Aves Isla Cuba, 1850, 19, pi. 3, fig. 2. — Gundlach, 

 Orn. Cubana, 1895, 21. — Menegaux, Rev. Frang. Orn., No. 2, 1909, 21 

 (Cuban localities). 



Buteo pennsylvanicus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., ii, 1854, ixxxii, (Cuba). — Gund- 

 lach, Journ. fiir Orn., ix, 1861, 403 (Cuba; crit.) ; Repert. Ffsico-nat. Cuba, i, 

 1865-66, 223; Journ. fur Orn., xix, 1871, 366 (Cuba; habits); Contr. Orn. 

 Cubana, 1876, 41.— Cory, List Birds West Indies, rev. ed., 1886, 22, part 

 (Cuba). 



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

 (Cuba). 



Buteo platypterus Swann, Synop. Accip., ed. 2, 1922, 82, part (Cuba). — Barbour, 

 Mem. Nuttall Orn. Club, No. 6, 1923, 46 (Cuba). 



Buteo platypterus platypterus Swann, Monogr. Birds Prey, i, 1928, 405, part 

 (Cuba).— Wetmore and Swales, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 155, 1931, 133 

 (habits, distr., etc.; Hispaniola). — American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Checklist, ed. 4, 1931, 67, part (Cuba, Haiti). 



Buteo platypterus cuhanensis Burns, Wils. Bull., xxiii, 1911, 148 (Cuba; orig. 

 descr.), 195 (Tres Hermanos Mountains). — Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., x, 

 1916, 193.— Peters, Check-list Birds of World, i, 1931, 236, part.— Bond, 

 Birds West Indies, 1936, 66, footnote (crit.); Notulae Naturae, No. 13, 1939, 

 1 (crit.; Cuba); Check List Birds West Indies, 1940, 23 (West Indies; Cuba, 

 fairly common ; Isle of Pines (?) ; Hispaniola (subsp. indet.) 1 rec. of immature 

 bird) ; ed. 2, 1945, 23.— Barbour, Mem. Nuttall Orn. Club, No. 9, 1943, 35 

 (Cuba; rare). 



BUTEO PLATYPTERUS BRUNNESCENS Danforth and Smyth 



Puerto Rican Broad-Winged Hawk 



Adult female.— -'^mv^Qx to that of Buteo platypterus cuhanensis, but 

 blacker above, the dark fuscous or fuscous-black of the latter replaced 

 by black, the gray bars on the tail duskier, more washed with dark 

 smoke gray; feathers of the chin, throat, sides of head and neck with 

 heavy black shaft streaks; rest of underparts tawny-olive heavily 

 barred with mummy brown, much more heavily and thicld}^ marked 

 than in the Cuban race. This is the darkest of all the known races 

 of the species; wing 264.5; tail 159; culmen from cere 20.8; tarsus 56.3; 

 middle toe without claw 29.5 mm." 



Immature male. — Similar to that of the nominate race, but with the 

 ventral tear-shaped streaks darker, fuscous to clove brown; wing 257; 

 tail 151; culmen from cere 18.5; tarsus 59.5; middle toe without claw 

 29.5 mm. (1 specimen). 



" Only the type known, (Examined.) 



