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The atlull male is in general rusty brown, paler below with the 

 anterior portion of head black, the back streaked with black, and 

 the wing speculum white. The female and young male are paler 

 with the black markings more broken. The birds are small as they 

 measure only 300 to 370 mm. long. 



Order FALCONIFORMES 33 

 Suborder FALCONES 



Family ACCIPITRIDAE 

 Subfamily Accipitrinae 



ACCIPITER STRIATUS STRIATUS Vieillot 



HISPANIOLAN SHARP-SHINNED HAWK, GUARAGUOU DE SIERRA, SAN 

 NICOLAS, HALCON, MALFINI, PETIT MALFINI 



Accipiter striatus Vieillot, Ois. Am6r. Sept., vol. 1, 1807, p. 42, pi. 14 (" Saint- 

 Donringue "= Haiti 3 ' ) . 



Sparvius striatus, Vieillot, Encycl., Meth., vol. 3, 1823, pp. 1205-1266 ("Saint 

 Domingue"). 



Nisus striatus, Haktlaub, Isis, 1847, p. 609 (listed). 



Nisus fuscus, Coky, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1S81, p. 154 (Haiti, specimen). 



Accipiter frinyilloides, Coky, Birds Haiti and San Domingo, Dec, 1884, pp. 

 120-121, col. plate (Le Coup, specimen) ; Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 98 

 (Haiti, Dominican Republic) ; Auk, 1895, p. 279 (Dominican Republic). — 

 Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 319, 322 ( listed ) .— Cherbie, Field 



ss The following references pertain apparently to either the turkey vulture Cathartes 

 aura (Linnaeus), or the black vulture Coragyps urubu (Vieillot). 



Marchand, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vol. 1, 1770, pp. 176, 179 (name applied by French 

 of " Saint-Domingue " ) . 



Vultur Brasiliensis Brisson, Ornith., vol. 1, 1760, p. 470. (S. Domingue.) No specimen 

 is listed. 



Aquhla nudlcollis, Ritter. Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 155 (Haiti). 

 The only note is " geyer mit nakendem Halse." There is no mention of a specimen taken. 

 This name which occurs in a list of birds supposedly found in Haiti bas been overlooked 

 except as indicated in the next citations. 



Falco nudicollis (Ibycter aquilinus), Hartlaub, Isis. 1847, p. 610 (listed after Ritter 

 with query). 



Aquila nudicollis, Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 319 (listed apparently after 

 Ritter). 



Cathartes aura, Hartlaub, Isis, 1847, p. 610 " wir kennen ihn von Cuba, Domingo 

 und St. Nevis." 



The note by Ritter, which seems to be the sole basis for all other references, may 

 probably refer to birds that he saw in Cuba. There is current, however, an uncertain 

 belief that buzzards were introduced near Gonaives many years ago during the period 

 of French colonization, the experiment being unsuccessful. We have found no definite 

 statement to substantiate this. 



M In the original description Vieillot remarks " elle porte le nom de malfini, que les 

 Creoles donnent indistinctement d. tous les petits oiseaux de proie " and in the Tableau 

 Encyclopedique et Methodique says further " les colons de Saint-Domingue appellent cet 

 Epervier Malfini, avec l'epithete de petit." As the name malfini is used only in the 

 Republic of Haiti it is taken from this that his description applies to the bird of naiti 

 which is therefore indicated as the restricted type locality. 



