18S7-] Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. AC. 



Falco leucop/irys Ridgw. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phi la. 1S70, p. 147. 

 Tinnunculus leucofhrys Ridgw. Pr. Acad. Nat Sci. Phila. 1870, p. 149. — 



Scl. & Salv. Norn. Avium Neotr. p. 121 (1S73). — Bd. Bwr. & 



Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. Ill, p. 161 (1874). 

 Tinnunculus sparverius var. dominicensis Ridgw. Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Phila. 1870, p. 149. 

 Cerchneis leucophrys Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus I, p. 442 (1874). 

 Falco sparverius var. dominicensis Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. 



Ill, p. 167 (1S74). 

 Tinnunculus sparverius (?) Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, p. 154 (1S81). 

 Falco sparverius isabellinus Cory, Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 124 



(1875)- 



Falco sparverius dominicensis Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 22 (1884). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of head slate color; forehead whitish; throat 

 white; a maxillary and auricular black stripe; breast rufous ; back 

 dark rufous brown ; tail rufous brown, tipped with white, and hav- 

 ing a sub-terminal band of black; outer web of outer tail-feather 

 white; wing-coverts slate color; abdomen and belly white ; a patch 

 of black on the side of the neck. 



Female: — Top of head slate color, showing a patch of rufous ; en- 

 tire upper parts rufous brown, banded with dull black; underparts 

 very pale rufous, delicately streaked and spotted with brown ; throat 

 white. 



Length, 10. ; wing, 7. ; tail, 5. tarsus, 1.20. 

 Habitat. Cuba? Haiti, San Domingo, and Porto Rico. 



Falco sparverioides Vig. * 



Falco sparverioides Vig. Zool. Journ. Ill, p. 436 (1S2S). — D'Orb. in La 

 Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p, 30 (1840). — Ridgw. Pr. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila. 1870, p. 149. — Coues, Key N. Am. Bds. p. 538 (1884). 



Tinnunculus sparverioides Gray, Gen. Bds. I, p. 21 (1844). — Bp. Consp. 

 I, p. 27 (1S50). — Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 100 (1S55).— Lawr. Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y. i860, p. 247.— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VIII, 

 p. 306 (i860). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 121 (1873). — 

 Gurney, Ibis, 1SS1, p, 565; ib. List Bds. Prey, p. 100 (1884). 



Pcecilornis sparverioides Kaup, Contr. Orn. p. 53 (1850). — Bp. Rev. Mag. 

 Zool. 1854, p. 537.— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 24 (1869.) 



Cerchneis sparverioides Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. I, p. 443 (1874). 



Falco (Tinnunculus) sparverioides Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. 

 Bds. Ill, p. 162 (1874). 



Falco sparverius sparverioides Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 22 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above entirely slate blue in the adult bird ; most spec- 

 imens seen have the back chestnut brown mixed with slaty; rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail chestnut brown ; tail with a sub-terminal 



