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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS 



[vol. 47 



Average Measurements of 



Four females from Barbuda 



One male from St. Bartholomew 



One male from St. Kitts 



< >ne male from St. Eustatius 



< )ne female from St. Eustatius 



Two males from Guadeloupe 



One male from Dominica 



1 >ne female from Dominica 



( >ne male from St. Vincent 



One female from St. Vincent 



One male from Grenada 



One female from Grenada 



Wing 



81.9 

 Si 

 82 

 82 



78.5 

 82.5 



83 

 84 

 81.5 



So 



78 



77-5 



Tail 



Ct'LMEN 



55-9 



60 



66.5 



61.5 



57-5 



58.5 



59-5 



61.5 



53-5 



54 



55 



57 



10.5 



"•5 

 "•5 

 "•5 

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Family BUTEONID/E 



27. BUTEO PLATYPTERUS Vieillot 



Three immature females, Antigua. 



All three specimens are very light colored (especially two of them ) , 

 the lightest colored of which has the feathers of the head and hind 

 neck white with a broad pear-shaped shaft streak of dark brown, 

 making it appear streaked in about equal proportions of white and 

 brown ; the scapulars and greater wing-coverts contain a great 

 amount of white ; the primaries and tail are white at their bases ; the 

 brown streaks below are small and mostly confined to the cheeks and 

 side of neck, barely meeting across the jugulum. 



I can find no specimen in the U. S. National Museum to match 

 these specimens, and they may represent an undescribed form. Air. 

 Cory (Auk, 1891, 47) has also remarked on the light colors of 

 Antiguan specimens. 



Family FALCONID^E 

 28. CERCHNEIS SPARVERIA CARIBiEARUM (Gmelin) 

 [Falco] caribearum Gmelin, Sys. Nat., 1, part 1, 1788, 284. 



Two males and four females. Barbuda; two males and three fe- 

 males. Antigua. 



Gmelin's name as quoted above was founded primarily on Brisson's 

 Aesalon Antillarum, that, judging from the description, came from 

 one of the Lesser Antilles, probably one of the islands then under 

 French rule. As quite a different form has usually been described 

 under Gmelin's name, I give a description for comparison. 



Adult male.— No. 191,134, U. S. X. M. ; Barbuda, B. W. L, Aug. 

 21, 1903; collected by H. G. Selwyn Branch. 



Top of head slaty gray, enclosing a large patch of cinnamon- 

 rufous, the whole top of head with narrow black shaft-streaks; back, 

 scapulars, and tertials cinnamon-rufous barred rather heavily with 



1 Three specimens. 



