:u 



with dark shaft 

 nearly obsolete ; 



Above lighter and greyer, 

 stripes ; daik tail bands 

 below bari'ed with grejish 

 97d. Accipiter nisus pollens Stejn., Pr. U.S. Nat. Kamtschatka, 

 Mus., xvi., p. 625 (1893). Japan. 



Kamtschatkan SparroAv-HaAvk. 



Insular race [with lisht and dark phase?.] 

 97e. Accipiter nisus teneriffce Lanbmann, Verhandl. Teneriffe. 

 Orn. Ges., xi., p. 164 (1912). 

 Teneriffe Sparrow Hawk. 



Blackish slaty above, darkest on head and 



nape ; bars on tail broad and pronounced ; 



below with bars broad and decided. 

 97f. Accipiter nisus melanoschistus Hume, Ibis, Himalayas. 



J869, p. 356. 



Himalayan SparroAv-Hawk. 

 97g. Accipiter nisus Iculygini* Bianchi, Ami. Mus. E. Thibet. 



St. Petersb., viii., p. 11 (1903). 



Above blackish broA\Ti ; below AA'hite, barred 

 Avith greyish black. 



98. Accipiter granti Sharpe, Ann. & Mag. N.H. (6), Madeira, 

 v., p. 483 (1890). 



Madeiran Sparrow-HaAvk. 



AboA-e slaty blue ; beloAv AA'hite, barred Avith 

 pale rufous ; the flanks barred like breast. 



99. Accipiter fiiscus fuscus (Gmel.), S.N.,i.,p. 280 N.America, 

 (1788). in winters, to 

 Sharp-shinned Hawk. Guatemala. 



Paler and more cinnamomeous beloAv ; thighs 

 Avith cinnamon rufous predominating. 

 99a. Accipter fuscus rufilatus (RidgAv.), Pr. U.S. West U.S. ,W. 

 Mus., xi., p. 92 (1888). to RockvMts., 



Western Sharp-shinned Hawk. N. to Kodiak, 



S. to Cent. 

 America. 



Cuba, 

 Haiti (?). 



Smaller and more slender ; cheeks rufous 

 beloAV nearly Avhite, especially the thighs. 

 99b. Accipiter fuscus fringilloides] (Vig.), Zool. Jnl. 

 iii., p. 434 (1828) [ex Cuba]. 

 Cuban Sparrow-Hawk. 



* Judgincr from description this form and Hume's melanoschistus are 

 very near one another, if not the same. 



t If the Cuban and Haitian forms are the same, they should be called 

 A. fuscus siriatus (Vieill.) as being the older name. 



