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tinged with orango-rufous or salmon-color. Male: 

 "Wing 6.80-7.30, tail 4.90-5.20, culmeii .46-.51, tarsus 

 1.30-1.45, middle too .90. Female: Wing 7.00-7.60, 

 tail 4.70-5.60, culiuun .50-.52, tarsus 1.40, middle too 

 .91. Hab. Cuba. 

 361. F, sparverioides Via. Cuban Sparrow Hawk.* 



(Light phase.) 



d'. Uaclc rufous onlj- in the female and young male, plumbeous or 

 dark bluish gray in adult male ; breast, etc., dce^) rusty or 

 rufous ; forehead and ear-coverts duslc}-. 



Adult male : Above, excejjt tail, entirely dark plumbeous, or 

 slate-gray, or else chiefly of this color; a blackish collar 

 across hind-neck ; breast and sides deep rufous, sometimes 

 inclining to chestnut; throat grayish white, or light graj-- 

 ish ; inner webs of quills graj'ish, transverselj'^ clouded or 

 mottled with duskj-. Young male : Similar to adult, but 

 back and scapulars mixed with more or less of rufous, 

 rusty of breast paler, etc. Adult female : Lower parts 

 deep rusty; inner webs of quills rusty, marked with about 

 twelve transverse bars or narrow spots of dusky. Male : 

 Wing 6.90-7.10, tail 4.80-5.10, culmen .50, tarsus 1.45-1.48, 

 middle toe .90. Female: Wing 7.00-7.50, tail 5.00-5.15, 

 culmen .50, tarsus 1.35-1.40, middle toe .88-.90. Hab. 

 Cuba and Haiti ; accidental or casual in southern Florida. 

 3G1. F. sparverioides Via. Cuban Sparrow Hawk. 



(Dark phase.) 



Gents POLYBORUS Vieillot. (Page 224, pi. LXYII., fig. 2.) 



Species. 



Co.MMON Cn..\RACTERS. — Tail dull M-hite, or pale isabella-color, narrowlj- barred 

 with grayish or dusk}-, and crossed at end by a broad band of dark brown or black- 

 ish. Adult : Whole top of head, together with greater portion of body and wings, 

 blackish, or dark brown; cheeks, neck, chest, and tail-coverts dull white or pale 

 isabella-color; nape, back, and breast (sometimes wing-coverts and belly also) 

 barred with whitish (or pale isabella-color) and duskj-. Young: Plumage striped 

 with dull brownish and dull whitish or dull huffy, the pilcum plain dull brownish; 

 tail as in adult. 



a\ Rump an<l upper tail-coverts, in adult, white (with or without bars) ; tail 



white, the narrow bars grayish, the terminal dark band 2.00. or more. 



wide. 



b*. iScapulars, breast, bellv, and middle wing-coverls barred with blackish and 



whitish in adult, striped in j-oung; tail-coverts barred ; wing 16.00-17.70, 



' Falco dominicentit GiiEL., Ilaitien Sparrow Uank, of flrst cJitioa, 



