Mr. R. B. Sharpe's Catalogue 0/ Accipitres. 489 



In the P. Z. S. for 1870, at p. 554, Dr. Finsch describes a 

 specimen from Trinidad with two basal bands, which he refers 

 to U. gundluchi ; bnt, judging from the description there given, 

 I venture to doubt the correctness of this identification, and 

 to think that, if the Cuban race be distinct, the Trinidad bird 

 is referable to U. anthracina rather than to U. gundlachi. 



The collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman contains a 

 curious pale-coloured Buzzard, a male bird, obtained at Chepo, 

 on the Isthmus of Panama, which I believe to be an imma- 

 ture specimen of U. anthracina in very abnormal plumage ; 

 by the kindness of its possessors I am able to give the follow- 

 ing particulars respecting this interesting specimen : the 

 wing measures ]3'1 inches from the carpal joint to the tip 

 of the in-imaries, the tarsus 3'1, the middle toe s. u. 1"8. In 

 connexion with these measurements, and in support of my 

 view of the bird being really an aberrant example of U. an- 

 thracina, I may remark that Mr. Ridgway {' Studies of 

 American Falconidse,^ p. 170) gives the following dimensions 

 as the result of an examination of forty-eight individuals of 

 that species: — "wing 13"15 to 15'80, tarsus 3"00 to 3*50, 

 middle toe 1-60 to 1-80.'' 



The specimen now under consideration has evidently been 

 killed whilst moulting ; and the old feathers, wherever they 

 remain, are considerably paler than those which have been 

 newly assumed, this being no doubt the result of their being 

 worn and faded ; the feathers on the upper portion of the 

 head and on the back of the neck are wood-brown, edged with 

 fulvous, this edging being most conspicuous above the ear- 

 coverts, which are themselves buff, with dark brown tips ; 

 the interscapulary feathers are some of them a pale sandy 

 colour, with a dark shaft-mark, on each side of which is an 

 irregular rufous mark running from the base of the shaft and 

 at an acute angle with it, to the edge of the web ; these ap- 

 pear to be the older feathers ; the newer are of a wood-brown 

 of varying intensity, and edged with rufous ; the scapulars 

 and wing-coverts are of a pale dove-colour, irregularly barred 

 and edged with rufous ; the tertials are of similar colour, and 

 transversclv barred with rufous on the inner webs, the outer 



