iSS;.] Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. A\ 



margins : tail of the same color as the back, partly tinged with dull ru- 

 fous and crossed with four brown bars, three of which are imperfect, 

 being but little developed on the outer webs, the outer bar. however, 

 crosses both webs, and is narrowly tipped with white ; quill feath- 

 ers brown, having the shafts, as are also those of the tail-feathers, 

 reddish brown ; cheeks dusky ash ; space forward of the eye pale 

 dull rufous ; a line of whitish feathers runs along the edge of the 

 crown and extends over the eye; throat ashy white tinged with 

 rufous ; sides of the neck, upper part of the breast and a band run- 

 ning to the hind neck, grayish ash ; lower portion of the breast and 

 upper part of the abdomen rufous, the feathers very narrowly edged 

 with dull white, lower part of abdomen of a paler rufous, with trans- 

 verse bars of dull white; long feathers of the sides grayish ash 

 tinged with rufous and destitute of bars or spots ; sides just above 

 the junction of the tail plain rufous; thighs of a bright but rather 

 pale rufous, the feathers having darker sub-marginal ends, termi- 

 nating with very narrow edgings of dull white; under wing-coverts 

 and axillars bright rufous barred with white; the feathers of the 

 throat, breast and sides have their shafts dark brown; upper tail- 

 coverts grayish ash, lower white; bill horn color, with a whitish 

 mark on the tooth and also on the edge of the lower mandible near 

 its base; legs greenish yellow. 



"Length about lS inches ; wing from flexure q§ ; tail l\ ; tarsus 2i£." 

 (Lawr., orig. descr., 1. c.) 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Accipiter fringilloides Vig. 



Accipiter fringilloides Vig. Zool. Journ. Ill, p. 434 (1828). — Denny, 

 P. Z. S. 1847, p. 38.— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 

 306 (i860).— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 32 (1869).— Gundl. J. f. O. 

 1871, p. 368. — Scl. &. Salv. Norn. Avium Neotr. p. 120 (1873). — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. I, p. 135 (1874).— Cory, Bds. Haiti 

 & San Domingo, p. 120 (1SS5) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 22 (1885). 



Nisus fringilloides D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 18 

 (1S40). — Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 128(1850). — Ridgw. Studies Am. 

 Falc. p. 117 (1S76). 



Nisus fuscus Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 128 (1850). — Gundl. J. f. O. 1854. — 

 Cory, Bull. Nutt. On. Club, VI, p. 154 (1881). 



Accipiter fuscus Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 (i860). 



Nisus fuscus var fringilloides Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. Ill, 

 p. 223 (1874). 



Sp. Char. Female: — Resembles Accipiter fescus, but plumage much paler; 

 above brown, the concealed portions of the feathers showing much 

 white ; concealed feathers of the back regularly marked with broad 

 spots of white; tail pale brown, showing five somewhat indistinct 



