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Above lighter and greyer, with dark shaft 

 stripes ; dark tail bands nearly obsolete ; 

 below barred with greyish. 

 97d. Accipiter nisus pallens Stejii., Pr. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus., xvi., p. 625 (1893). 

 Kanitschatkan Sparrow-Hawk. 



Insular race [with light and dark phase.^.] 

 97e. Accipiter nisus tenerijfcB Laubniann, Verhandi. 

 Orn. Ges., xi., p. 164 (1912). 

 Teneriflfe Sparrow Hawk. 



Blackish slaty above, darkest on head and 



nape ; bars on tail broad and pronounced ; 



below with bars broad and decided. 

 97f. Accipiter nisus melanoschistus Hume, Ibis, 



1869, p. 356. 



Himalayan Sjiarrow-Hawk . 

 97g. Accipiter nisus ladi/gini* Bianchi, Ann. Mus. 



St. Petersb., viii., p. 11 (1903). 



Above blackish brown ; below white, barred 

 with greyish black. 



98. Accipiter granti Sharpe, Aim. & Mag. N.H. (6), 

 v., p. 483 (1890). 



Madeiran Sparrow-Hawk. 



Above slaty blue ; below white, barred with 

 pale rufous ; the flanks barred like breast. 



99. Accipiter fuscus fuscus (Gmel.), S.N.,i.,i). 280 

 (1788). 



Sharp-shinned Hawk. 



Paler and more cinnamomeous below ; thighs 

 with cinnamon rufous predominating. 

 99a. Accipter fuscus rufilatus (Ridgw.), Pr. U.S. 

 Mus., xi., p. 92 (1888). 

 Western Sharp-shinned Hawk. 



Smaller and more hlendcr ; cheeks rufous 

 ] below nearly white, especially the thighs. 



99b. Accipiter fuscus fringilloides\ (Vig.), Zool. Jnl. 

 iii., p. 434 (1828) [ex Cuba]. 

 Cuban Sjiarrow-Hawk. 



Kamtschatka, 

 Japan. 



Teneriffe. 



Himalayas. 

 E. Thibet. 



Madeira. 



N. America, 

 in winter S. to 

 Guatemala. 



West U.S., W. 

 to RockyMts., 

 N. to Kodiak, 

 S. to Cent. 

 America. 



Cuba, 

 Haiti (?). 



* Judging from description this form and Hume's melanoschistus are 

 very near one another, if not the same, 



t If the Cuban and Haitian forms are the same, they should be called 

 A. fuscus striatus (Vieill.) as being the older name. 



