270 Riley, The Broad-winged Haivks of the West Indies. {j^W 



S[parvius] platypterus Vieillot,' Tabl. Encycl. Method., Ill, 1823, 

 1273 (founded on Wilson, pi. 54, f. 1). 



F[alco] Wilsonii Bonaparte, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Ill, April, 

 1824, 348 (based on Wilson, VI, 92). 



F[aJco] latissimus Bonaparte, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Ill, 

 April, 1824, 348, footnote (same basis as preceding). — Ord, Wil- 

 son's Am. Orn., 2 ed., 1824, 92 (dated 1812, but for correct date, 

 see Faxon, Auk, 1901, 217). 



Buteo pennsylvanicus Bonaparte, Comp. List Birds Europe and N. 

 Am., 1838, 3.— Brewer, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., VII, 1860, 

 306 (Cuba). — Cabanis, Joum. fiir Om., II, Suppl. 1855, Ixxxii 

 (Cuba).— Gundlach, Joum. fur Orn., 1861, 403 (Cuba), 1871, 366 

 (Cuba); Oni. Cubana, 1876, 41; Anales Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. Madrid, 

 VII, 1878, 160 (Porto Rico). 



[Buteo] pensylvanicus Gundlach, Journ, fiir Orn., 1861, 322 (Cuba). 



[Buteo] pennsylvanicus Gundlach, Repert. Fis.-Nat. Cuba, I, 1865- 

 66, 223; Joum. fiir. Orn., 1878, 158 (Porto Rico).— Cory, List 

 Birds W. I., 1885, 22 (part). 



B[uteo] pennsylvanicus Gundlach, Anales Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. Madrid, 

 II, 1873, 99 (Cuba). 



[Buteo] pennsylvanius Gundlach, Journ. fur Oiti., 1874, 310 (Porto 

 Rico). 



Buteo latissimus Lembeye, Aves de Cuba, 1850, 19. — Cory, Auk, 

 1887, 40 (part); Birds W. I., 1889, 198 (part); Cat. Birds W. I., 

 1892, 99 (part).— Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, 1895, 21 (Cuba; hab- 

 its, etc.). 



B[uteo] latissimus Lembey^e, Aves de Cuba, 1850, 127. 



Buteo platypterus Faxon, Auk, 1901, 218. — A. O. U. Comm., Auk, 

 1901, 299. 



A series of six adults (three males, two females, and one marked 

 female, but probably Mrongly sexed) from Cuba are uniformly 

 clove brown above ; with sides of neck, mantle, lesser wing-coverts, 

 and scapulars rather strongly edged with cinnamon-rufous; below, 

 the barring is cinnamon-rufous, heavier on the chest. Birds from 

 the eastern United States exliibit apparently two phases of plumage; 

 a light grayish brown backed bird with little or no reddish edges 

 to the feathers, and Avith the bars below prout's brown; and a 

 dark bird with the feathers of the sides of neck and upper back 

 strongly edged with cinjiamon-rufous, and the bars below of the 

 latter color, heavier, and sometimes confluent on the chest. There 

 are no individuals in the series from Cuba corresponding to the 

 gray phase of the continent, but the dark phase is hardly or not at 



