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and Louis Pefia; scarce on Cayo Norte and Culebrita), 466 (Virgin Islands; 

 localities); xxi, 1937, 542 (Vieques Island; rare). 



FALCO SPARVERIUS DOMINICENSIS Gmelin 



HisPANioLAN Sparrow Hawk 



Adult male. — Similar to that of the nominate race, but the chestnut 

 coronal patch usually absent, the upperparts paler, orange-cinnamon 

 to pecan brown with few (sometimes no) black transverse marks on 

 the scapulars or back; underparts entirely unspotted except for a few 

 round black spots on the extreme sides of the body (covered by the 

 closed wing); breast pale ochraceous buff to pale ochraceous salmon, 

 rest of underparts, including under wing coverts white. 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult female of the typical subspecies, 

 but much paler below, the breast suffused with pale ochraceous buff 

 to pale ochraceous-salmon, the feathers of the breast and sides of the 

 upper abdomen with fine cinnamon shaft streaks terminally widening 

 into small spots; upperparts generally brighter, hazel, especially the 

 tail. 



Juvenal male. — Similar to the adult, but with some chestnut on 

 the crown, and with the breast and upper abdomen with a few small 

 elliptical blackish or fuscous spots. 



Juvenal jemale. — Similar to the adult, but with the sides of the upper 

 abdomen spotted sparsely with sepia. 



Natal down. — Not recorded. 



Adult male.—Wmg 180-194 (183.4); tail 118-131 (124.6); culmen 

 from cere 12-13 (12.7); tarsus 37-41 (39); middle toe without claw 

 21-24 (21.6 mm.).^* 



Adult Jemale. —Wm^ 180-195 (189.6); tail 123-130 (126); culmen 

 from cere 12-14 (12.9); tarsus 35-40 (36.1); middle toe without claw 

 23-25 (23.3 mm.).^^ 



Range. — Resident in and common throughout Hispaniola including 

 lie k Vache and Gonave Island. 



Type locality. — Hispaniola. 

 Aesalon dominicensis Brisson, Orn., i, 1760, 393, pi. 32, fig. 2 ("Saint- 



Domingue"). 

 Falco dominicensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 285 (Sauto Domingo; based 

 on Emerillon de St. Domingue Brisson, Orn., i, 1760, 389, pi. 32, fig. 2; St. 

 Domingo Falcon Latham, Synop Birds, i. 1781, 111). — Daudin, Traits 

 d'Orn., ii, 1800, 143, part (Santo Domingo). — Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., xi, 1867, 90 (Santo Domingo; crit.).— Cort, Auk, iv, 1887, 44, 

 part (Haiti; Santo Domingo; excl. syn. part); Birds West Indies, 1889, 202, 

 part (Haiti; Santo Domingo; excl. syn. part); Cat, West Indian Birds, 1892, 

 10, 99, 139, 140 (Haiti; Santo Domingo). — Ridgwat, Man. North Amer- 



8* Sixteen specimens from Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 

 8 'Thirteen specimens from Haiti and Santo Domingo. 



