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BUTEO PLATYPTERUS ANTILLARUM Clark 



Antillean Broad-winged Hawk 



Adults (sexes alike). — Similar to the typical subspecies but smaller 

 and with the chin and throat more abundantly streaked (only one 

 median streak in typical platypterus) . 



Juvenal (sexes alike) . — Similar to that of the typical form, but with 

 the under wing coverts generally much suffused with tawny-bulT 

 (whitish in platypterus). 



Natal down. — Not known. 



Adult male.—Wmg 254.5-268 (260.4); tail 148.1-163.5 (154.9); 

 culmen from cere 18.4-19.8 (18.8); tarsus 53.2-57.9 (55.1); middle toe 

 without claw 28.6-31.7 (30.2 mm.) (4 specimens). 



Adult jemale.—Wmg 260.8-272.6 (267.4); tail 153.6-166.6 (158.9); 

 culmen from cere 19.3-20.5 (19.9); tarsus 54-57 (55.4 mm.).^'' 



Range. — Resident on Barbados (formerly?), St. Vincent, Grenadines 

 (including Bequia, Mustique, Canouan, Carriacou), Grenada, and 

 Tobago. 



Type locality. — Chateaubelair, St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles. 



Buteo laiissimus (not Faico latissimvs Wilson) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., i, 

 1874, 193, part.—CoRY, Ibis, 1886, 473 (St. Vincent); Auk, iv, 1887, 40, 

 part (Lesser Antilles except Antigua); x, 1893, 220 (Tobago); Birds West 

 Indies, 1889, 198, part (Lesser Antilles, part) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, 

 99, part (St. Vincent; Bequia; Canouan; Carriacou; Barbados). — Wells, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1887, 622 (Grenada; breeding; descr, nest and 

 eggs). — Feilden, Ibis, 1889, 489, in text (Barbados). — Warren, Birds 

 Pennsylvania, 1890, ed. 2, 130, part. — Fisher, Hawks and Owls United 

 States, 1893, 79, part. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1895, 

 133, part. 



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

 Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 194 (St. Vincent), 273 (Grenada); i, 1879, 487, part (St. 

 Vincent; Grenada). — Lister, Ibis, 1880, 43 (St. Vincent). — Cory, List Birds 

 West Indies, 1885, and rev. ed., 1886, 22, part (Antilles, part). — Wells, 

 List Birds Grenada, 1886, 6. — Sharpe, List Vert. Anim. Zool. Soc. London, 

 ed. 9, 1896, 382 (Grenada). 



Buteo antUlarum Clark, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, xviii, 1905, 62 (Chateau- 

 belair, St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs); Proc. Boston 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., xxxii, 1905, 241 (St. Vincent, Grenada, Bequia, Mustique, 

 and Carriacou; descr.; crit.; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Riley, Auk, xxv, 

 1908, 271 (synonymy; range; crit.). — Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 

 1930, 189 (type in Mus. Comp. Zool.). 



Buteo platypterus antillarum Riley, Auk, xxv, 1908, 271, part (synonymy; range; 

 crit.).— Burns, Wils. Bull., xxiii, 1911, 196, part (Barbados, St. Vincent, 

 Bequia, Mustique, Cannouan, Carracou, Grenada, Tobago). — Swann, 

 Synopt. List Accip., pt. 2, 1919, 50; Synop. Accip., ed. 2, 1922; 82; Monogr. 

 Birds Prey, i, 1928, 405, part (monogr.). — Peters, Check-list Birds of World, 

 i, 1931, 237.— Bond, Birds West Indies, 1936, 66, 67, in text (West Indies: 



^8 Three specimens; measurements supplied by Dr. Stuart T. Danforth of 

 Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; none seen by me. 

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