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a species of swift, darting flight that seems common in the forests 

 of the high interior. There is nothing known of its nesting, or little 

 of its habits except as recorded above. 



Above this species is dark slate gray, with a whitish tail tip. The 

 sides of the head and neck are cinnamon brown, and the remainder 

 of the underparts white barred finely with cinnamon and slate. The 

 tibia are sometimes cinnamon brown, margined lightly with white, 

 and sometimes white barred with mixed slate and warm brown. The 

 tarsi are very long and slender. 



Subfamily Buteoninae 



BUTEO JAMAICENSIS JAMAICENSIS (Gmelin) 

 WEST INDIAN RED-TAILED HAWK, GUARAGUOU, MAIFINI, GROS MALFINI 



Falco jatnaicensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 1, 1788, p. 266 (Jamaica). 



?Malfeni, Chaelevoix, Hist. Isle Espagnole, vol. 1, 1733, p. 41 (recorded). 



?Malfini, Saint-Mery, Descrip. Part. Frang. lie Saint-Donringue, vol. 1, 

 1797, p. 263 (Dondon). 



Guaraguao, Oviedo, Hist. Gen. Nat. Indias, Libr. 14, Cap. 2. Reprint, Madrid, 

 1851, p. 442 (habits). 



Red-tailed hawk, Beck, Nat. Hist., vol. 21, 1921, p. 381 (food). 



Buteo fulvus, Vieleot, Ois. Amer. Sept., vol. 1, 1S07, p. 34 (" Saint- 

 Domingue"). 



lAquila antillarum Ritter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 155 

 (Haiti: nomen nudum). — Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 319 (listed). 



Rupomis ridgwayi, Cherrie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, 

 p. 22 (Dominican Republic, refers to Buteo). 



Buteo tropicalis Verriix, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, pp. 357-358 

 (Described as new, San Lorenzo, Dominican Republic). 



Buteo borealis, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 99 (Haiti, Dominican 

 Republic).— Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 139; Beneath Tropic Seas, 

 1928, p. 221 (Haiti). 



Buteo oorealis jwmaicensis, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. vol. 61, 1917, pp. 

 399-401 (Choc6, Los Toritos, El Batey, Sosua).— Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, p. 493 (Haiti, common).— Danforth, Auk, 1929, p. 

 362 (Haiti and Dominican Republic). — Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat. 

 vol. 68, 1929, p. 310 (Moca, specimens). 



Resident ; common, mainly among hills and mountains. 



The West Indian red-tailed hawk is widely spread through both 

 republics and is seen regularly in travel through the country. 

 Cherrie who did not secure specimens gives notes under the name of 

 Rwpornis ridgwayi that evidently refer to the present bird, as he 

 reports it seen frequently in the mountains, while Rupomis is more 

 a species of the lowlands. Further Rwpornis is rare and the red-tail, 

 which Cherrie does not mention at all, is common. Cory did not 

 include the red-tail in his Birds of Haiti and San Domingo published 

 in 1885, but lists it from Hispaniola in his Catalogue of West Indian 

 Birds which appeared in 1892. 



