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Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [January 



this genus, yellowish white, inclining to bluish horn-colour at 

 base. Total length 17 inches. 



'■'■Female: — -Body above entirely light bluish ash-colour, paler on 

 the head, beneath barred with the same, the bars having a ferrugi- 

 nous tinge" (Cassin, 1. c). 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Regerhinus uncinatus (Temm.). 



Falco uncinatus Temm. PI. Col. 103, 104, 105 (1824). 



Cytnindis uncinatus Less. Man. d'Orn. I, p. 91 (1828). — Gray, Gen. Bds. 



I, p. 25 (1844). — Bp. Consp. I, p. 21 (1S50). — Burm. Th. Bras. II, 



p. 108 (1856).— Leot. Ois. Trinid. p. 36 (1S66).— Gray, Handl. 



Bds. I, p. 136 (1S69). — Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 5, 398 ( 1 87 1 ) . — Schleg. 



Rev. Accipitr. p. 136 (1S73). — Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873. p. 419. — Scl. 



& Salv. Norn. Avium Neotr. p. 122 (1873). — Wells, List Bds. 



Grenada, p. 6 (1886). 

 Falco vitticaudus Max. Beitr. Ill, p. 178 (1S30). 

 Cytnindis cuculoides Swains. Classif. Bds. II, p. 209 (1S37). 

 Regerhinus uncinatus Kaup, Mus. Senckenb. Ill, p. 262 (1845). — Cab. in 



Schomb. Reis. Guian. Ill, p. 736 (1848).— Gundl. J. f. O. 1871, p. 



284.— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 23 (1S85). 

 Rostrhamus uncinatus Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 136 (1S55). 

 Cytnindis puchcrani Leot. Ois. Trinid. p. 40 (1866). — Gray, Handl. Bds. 



I. p. 25 (1S69). — Finsch, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 557. 

 Cytnindis boliviensis Burm. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 635. — Gray, Handl. Bds. I, 



p. 2S (1S69). 

 Cytnindis z itticaudus Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 6, 398 (1871). 

 Lcptodon uncinatus Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. I, p. 330 (1S74). 



" 7"ou tig: — Above brown, the dorsal feathers and wing-coverts 

 margined with pale rufous, the upper tail-coverts broadly barred 

 and tipped with buff; quills dark brown, with rufous-buff tips, the 

 primaries barred with dark brown above, the secondaries more or 

 less distinctly barred with rufous or rufous buff; the under surface 

 of the wing ashy brown, barred with darker brown, the bases of the 

 feathers creamy buff, washed with rufous near the tips; tail ashy 

 brown, tipped with whitish, barred across with dark brown bars, 

 the interspaces on the inner web creamy buff, more or less mottled 

 with brown above, at the base barred above and below with creamy 

 buff, like the upper tail-coverts; crown of the head dark brown, 

 with no pale margins; sides of the face and a collar around the 

 neck white, slightly spotted with pale brown, the ear-coverts inclin- 

 ing to bluish grey; under surface of body white, the throat indis- 

 tinctly spotted, and the breast narrowly barred with pale brown, 

 the bars almost linear on the under tail-coverts, those on the 



