24. ACci?rrER. 137 



b. 5juv.6t. Delaware, U.S.A. E. Doubleday, Esq. 



c, d. cS juv. sk. N. America. R. B. Sharpe. Esq. 



[P.]. 



5 juv. sk. N. America. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



e. 



[P.]. 



/. (S juv. sk. N.W. America. 



//. (S ]uv. sk. N. America. 



h, i. (5'juv. sk. West side of Rocky Mountains. J. K. Lord, Esq. 



j\f^- c5"juv. sk. Vancouver's Island. J. K. Lord, Esq. 



I. 2 juv. sk. Vancouver's Island. J. K. Lord, Esq. 



m. 2 juv. sk. California. Purchased. 



n, 0. c? 2 ad. sk. Jalapa. R. de Oca [C.]. 



3. Accipiter cooperi*. 



Falco cooperi, ^ja. Am. Orn. i. pi. 10. fig. 1 (1828). 



Falco stanleyi, Aud. B. Am. pis. 30, 141, et Orn. Bioqr. i. p. 186 



(1831). 

 Accipiter mexicanus, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Am. Birds, p. 45 (1831) ; 



Cuss. B. Calif, p. 96 (1855) ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 109 (1855) ; 



Cass, in Baird's B. N. Am. p. 17 (1860) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 33 



(1869) ; Cooim-, B. Calif, ed. Baird, p. 465 (1871). 

 Astur cooperi, Bp. Cump. List B. Etir, ^ N. Am. p. 5 (1838) ; Jard. 



ed. Wils. Am. Orn. p. 085 (1840). 

 Accipiter cooperi. Gray, Cat. Acci^ntr. p. 38 (1848) ; id. Gen. B. i. 



p. 29 (1849) ; Cass. B. Calif, p. 96 (1855) ; id. in Baird's B. N. 



Am. p. 16 (1860) ; Allen, Bull. Harv. Coll. ii. p. 321 (1871) ; 



Cooper, B. Calif, ed. Baird, p. 464 (1871) ; Cmtes, Key N. A. Birds, 



p. 212 (1872) ; Adams, Bambles, p. 297 (1873) ; Scl. ^ Salv. Ko- 



mencl. Av. Neotr. p. 129 ( 1873). 

 Cooperastur stanleyi, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 638. 

 Nisus cooperi, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Bevue Accipitr. p. 73 (1873). 



Young male. Deep brovra above with a chocolate gloss, aU the 

 feathers of the upper surface broadly edged with rufous ; head and 

 hind neck rufous, the feathers mesially streaked with black, the 

 occiput, nape, and scapulars slightly varied with white at the bases 

 of the feathers ; sides of face rufous, with narrow lines of black ; 

 quills ashy brown, the secondaries with pale rufous tips, all barred 

 across with blackish brown, showing more plainly underneath, where 

 the under surface is ashy white ; tail clear brownish ash-colour, 

 broadly tipped with white and crossed with four broad black bars ; 



* A. GUNDLACHII. 



Accipiter cooperi, Lemheye, Aves Cuba, p. 17 (1850). 

 Accipiter pileatus, Lemheye, I. c. p. 125 (1850). 

 Astur pileatus, Cab. n. Gundl. J. f. 0. 1854, Extrab. p. Ixxxii. 

 Accipiter gundlachii, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 252 (1862); Scl. i|- 

 Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 170 (1869); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 33 (1869) ; Gundl. 

 ^./. 0.1871, p. 367. 

 Hab. Cuba. 



I have never seen this species, which will probably prove on examination to 

 be identical with tlie small, richly coloured form of A. cooperi, called bj Swain- 

 Bon A. /nf.Ttcanu.'f. 



