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d. 2 juv. sk. N. America. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



e. cj juy. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



4. Accipiter tinus. 



Falco tinus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 50 (1790). 



Sparvius subniger, Vieill. N. Diet. x. p. 319 (1817) ; Piichet: Rev, 



Zool. 1850, p. 92. 

 Spai-Tius minutus, Vieill. N. Diet. x. p. 328 (1817); Piwher. Hev. 



Zoul. 1850, p. 93. 

 Nisus malfini, Less. Traite, p. 58 (1831) ; Puclier. Rev. Zool. 1850, 



p. 209. 

 Accipiter tinus, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. 1848, p. 72 ; id. Gen. B. p. 29, 



pi. 10 (1849) ; B2). Comp. i. p. 32 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 33 



(1869) ; Peh. Orn. Bras. pp. 8, 399 (1871) ; Scl. S^- Salv. Komencl. 



At: Keotr. p. 120 (1873). 

 Hieraspizia tinus, Kanp, Confr. Orn. 1850, p. G3. 

 leraspiza tinus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 538. 

 leraspiza fontanieri, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 538. 

 Accipiter superciliosus, Striekl. Orn. Si/n. p. 115 (1855). 

 Nisus tinus, Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 70 (1855); Sold. Mus. P.-B. 



Astures, p. 33 (1862) ; id. Revue Accipitr. p. 77 (1873). 

 Teraspiza tinus, Kaiip, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 171. 



Young. Above dull cinnamon-rufous, the head blackish, leaving 

 only a rufous eyebrow, and the back, scapulars, and wing-coverts 

 slightly mottled with black centres to some of the feathers ; sides of 

 face and throat pale rufous, the latter inclining to whitish ; under 

 surface cinnamon-buff, with indications of brown cross bars, the 

 thighs and under tail-coverts deeper-coloured and more uniform ; 

 under wing-coverts uniform cinnamon-buff ; wings cinnamon like 

 rest of back, primaries externally dusk\' brown as also at tip and 

 barred with the same on the inner web ; tail cinnamon, with six 

 black bars, two concealed by the upper taU-coverts. 



Immature. Above brown, the feathers margined with rufous, the 

 head blackish ; sides of face greyish white, streaked with dark brown ; 

 throat white ; sides of neck and rest of under siu-face white, thickly 

 barred with pale rufous, these bars becoming narrower towards the 

 lower abdomen ; quills and tail much as in the adult, the secondaries 

 margined with rufous, the tail marked with white at the base and 

 crossed with five bands of dark brown. 



Adult male. Above slaty-grey, the head darker, sides of the face 

 and neck a little paler grey, throat piu'e white ; rest of under sur- 

 face white, very minutely banded with greyish brown, almost 

 amounting to mere transvermiculations, the thighs barred like the 

 breast ; under wing- and tail-coverts white, the transverse markings 

 almost obsolete ; wing-coverts and quills a little browner than the 

 back, the secondaries with concealed spots of white ; the primaries 

 barred with dark brown, plainer underneath, where the quills are 

 white at the base of the inner web ; tail ashy brown, lighter at the , 

 tip and crossed with four bars of darker brown, more distinct under- 

 neath where the interspaces are creamy white, but obsolete on the 

 outermost feather. Total length 8-8 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 5-4, 

 tail 3-9, tarsus 1-6. 



