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tawny-buff streaked with fuscous, the dark markings few and narrow 

 on the chin and upper throat, ver}'- broad on the lower throat, sHghtly 

 less so on the sides and flanks, usually fewer and somewhat smaller 

 on the abdomen; thighs narrowlj^ barred with fuscous; under tail 

 coverts white barred with fuscous; under wing coverts bufty white to 

 pale tawny-buff streaked and spotted with fuscous; soft parts appar- 

 ently as in adult, but iris paler brown. 



Natal down. — Not known. 



Adult male.~Wmg 330-375 (353.6); tail 175-206 (185.4); culmen 

 from cere 25-28 (26.1); tarsus 81-85.5 (82.6); middle toe without 

 claw 42-44 (44.7 mm.) (seven specimens from Cuba and the Isle of 

 Pines) . 



Adult female.— W'mg 358, 376; tail 199, 209; culmen from cere 28, 

 28; tarsus 82, 80; middle toe without claw 43, 44 mm. (two specimens 

 from the Isle of Pines). 



Range. — Definitely known only from Cuba and the Isle of Pines; 

 doubtfully, or at least uncertainly, recorded from Jamaica. 



Type locality. — Cuba. 



? Morphnus urubitinga Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 19. — Albrecht, Journ. 



fiir Orn., 1862, 204 (Jamaica). — March, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 



XV, 1863, 3, 153 (Jamaica). 

 Morphnus urubitinga (not Falco urubitinga Gmelin, 1788) Lembeye, Aves Cuba, 



1850, 14, pi. 3, fig. 3. 

 (?) Orubitinga brasiliensis Poey, Mem. Real. Soc. Econ. Habana, ser. 2, vi, 



No. 2, 1848, 100 (Cuba). 

 Urubitinga brasiliensis ? Lembeye, Mem. Real. Soc. Econ. Habana, ser. 2, vi, 



No. 5, 1849, 332 (Cuba). 

 Hy-pomorphnus gundlachii Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1854 (Extraheft pub. 1855), 



p. Ixxx (Cuba; coll. Berlin Mus.?). — Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 



vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba).— Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 322 (Cuba); Rep. 



Ffsico Nat. Cuba, i, 1865-66, 223; Contr. Orn. Cubana, "1876" (=1873), 40. 

 Hypomorphnus gundlachi Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 426 (Nueva 



Gerona). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1871, 365 (Cuba; habits). 

 Hipomorphnus gundlachi Gundlach, Cat. Aves Cubana, Anales Soc. Esp. Hist. 



Nat., ii, 1873, 99 (Cuba). 

 Buteo gundlachii Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 9, No. 80. 

 Urubitinga "gundlachi" Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. Terr., ser. 2, 



No. 2, 1876, 173 (monogr.). 

 Urubitinga gundlachi Gurney, Ibis, 1876, 488, in text (crit.). — Barbour, Mem, 



Nuttall Orn. Club, No. 6, 1923, 47 (Cuba; crit.).— Swann, Bull. Brit. Orn. 



Club, xliii, 1923, 148 (crit.). 

 Urubitinga gundlachii Gurney, List Diurn. Birds Prey, 1884, 77; Cat. Birds 



Prey, 1894, 25.— Bangs, Auk, xxii, 1905, 307-309 (Cayo Romano, Puerto 



Principe, Cuba; crit.; habits). — Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., x, 1916, 193 



(Los Indios and Caleta Grande, Isle of Pines; crit.; habits). — Swann, 



Monogr. Birds Prey, i, 1930, 462 (monogr.). 

 Urubitinga anihracina gundlachii Swann, Synopt. List Accip., pt. 2, 1919, 58; 



Synop. Accip., ed, 2, 1922, 98. 



