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a traceof cinnamon-rufous, the inner web obsoletely barred with brown; 

 primaries dark brown, darker on the outer feathers, and becoming 

 lighter on the others toward the base, until the ground color of the 

 whole feather gradually becomes uniform dark hair brown on the outer 

 web, all (except the first) narrowly edged at the tip and rather broadly 

 at the base on the outer web with white, the white on the outer web 

 stippled with brown, the inner webs of all the feathers (as far as the 

 emargination on the outer three, and farther on the rest) white, barred 

 with black; these bars extend across the bro^vn of the outer, but never 

 entirely across the white of the inner, web ; secondaries dark hair brown ; 

 white on the inner web, edged with white at tip and barred with black; 

 tertials white, barred with sepia; scapulars white, barred and tipped 

 with sepia; lining of wing pinkish buff, with a few faint shaft streaks 

 at carpal joint; below creamy white, the jugulum crossed by a scat- 

 tering band of sparse tear-shaped spots of sepia; the rest of the under- 

 parts almost immaculate, except for a few small scattering spots on the 

 flanks, and a few hair lines of sepia on the breast; thighs creamy buff, 

 rather sparsely marked with V-shaped sepia bars. 



Natal down.- — -Undescribed. 



Adult male. — Wing 227; tail 145.9; culmen from cere 18.5; tarsus 56; 

 middle toe without claw 29.2 mm/^ 



Range. — Resident on the island of Antigua. 



Type locality: — Antigua. 



Buteo pennsylvanictis? (not Falco pennsylvanicus Wilson) Lawrence, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 236 (Antigua, res.). 



Buteo pennsylvanicus Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 487, part 

 (Antigua). — Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 22, part 

 (Lesser Antilles, part). 



Bueto latissimus (not Falco laiissimus Wilson) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., i, 

 1874, 198, part. — Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 40, part (Lesser Antilles, part); viii, 

 1891, 47 (Antigua); Birds West Indies, 1889, 198, part (Antigua); Cat. West 

 Indian Birds, 1892, 99, part (Antigua). — Ridgway, Man. North Amer. 

 Birds, 1887, 236; ed. 2, 1896, 237, part.— Davie, Nests and Eggs North 

 Amer. Birds, ed. 4, 1889, 178, part. — Warren, Birds Pennsylvania, 1890, 130, 

 part. — Fisher, Hawks and Owls United States, 1893, 79, part. — American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, ed. 2, 1895, 133, part. 



Buteo platypterus (not Sparvius platypterus Vieillot) Riley, Smiths. Misc. Coll., 

 xlvii, 1904, 282 (Antigua; crit.). 



Buteo platypterus insulicola Riley, Auk, xxv, 1908, 273 (Antigua, Lesser Antilles; 

 type in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.),— Burns, Wils. Bull., xxiii, 1911, 196 (Anti- 

 gua). — Swann, Synopt. List Accip., pt. 2, 1919, 50; Synop. Accip., ed. 2, 

 1922, 82; Mongr. Birds Prey, i, 1928, 405 (monogr.).— Peters, Check-list 

 Birds of World, i, 1931, 237.— Danforth, Auk, li, 1934, 357 (Antigua).— 

 Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 66, 67, in text (Antigua; descr.), 414; Check 

 List Birds West Indies, 1940, 23 (Antigua); ed. 2, 1945, 23. 



" Only one specimen, the type, seen. No adult females seen. 



