4 6 



Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [January 



band of black; inner secondaries gray; sides of tbe face and throat 

 white; a streak of black on sides of throat; slight mark on the nape 

 and a patch near the ear-coverts black: breast pale chestnut, and 

 becoming whitish, tinged with chestnut on the belly and vent; 

 flanks showing a grayish tinge, and a few faint black spots. 



Length (skin), about 10; wing, 6.50; tail, 4.70; tarsus, 1.50; 

 bill, .60. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Falco caribbaearum Gmel. 



Falco caribbcearum Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. p. 284 (1788). 



Falco (Psalon. var. p. Lath. Ind. Orn. I, p. 49 (1790). 



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



Tinnunculus sparverius var. antillarum Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 



487 (1878).— Allen. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V, p. 169 (1880). 

 Tinnunculus antillarum Gurxey, Ibis, 1SS1, p. 547. 

 Tinnunculus caribbtearum Grisdale, Ibis, 1882, p. 491. — Gurney, List 



Bds. Prey, p. 99 (1884).— Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VII, p. 172 



(1SS4). 

 Falco sparverius caribb&arnm Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 22 (1S85) ; ib. 



Ibis, 1SS6, p. 474. 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage above chestnut brown, heavily banded 

 with black ; forehead grayish ; top of head chestnut brown, show- 

 ing faint lines of black; underparts dull white, tinged with rufous 

 on the breast, and spotted and streaked with black, heaviest on the 

 sides of the body ; primaries heavily blotched with white on the 

 inner webs; under surface of tail brown, showing numerous bands 

 of black, a wide subterminal band of black, and narrowly tipped 

 with grayish white. 



Length (skin) 9.50; wing, 6; tail. 4.50; tarsus, 1; bill .55. 



Habitat. Lesser Antilles. 



u Genus Elanoides Vieill. 



Elanoidcs 'Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. XXIV, p. 101 , 1818. Type Falco furca- 

 tus — F. forficatus Linn." 



Elanoides forficatus (Linn.). 



Falco forficatus Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. S9 (175S). 



Nauclerus furcatus Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 19 (1S47). — Brewer, Pr. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 (1S60) (Cuba).— Albrecht, J. f. O. 

 1862, p. 204 (Jamaica). — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S63, 

 P- *53 (Jamaica). — Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba. I, p. 225 

 (1865) ; ib. J. f. O. 1S71, p. 370 (Cuba).— A. & E. Newton, Handb. 

 Jamaica, p. no (1SS1). 



Elanoides forficatus Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 22 (1885). 

 Recorded from Cuba and Jamaica. 



