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all different from eastern United States examples. In size, the 

 Cuban birds may average a trifle smaller, but not enough to war- 

 rant separating them as a race. Unfortunately there are no birds 

 from Florida in the series examined by me, nor have I seen a speci- 

 men from Porto Rico, but judge specimens from the latter local- 

 ity will not differ from Cuban examples. 



Broad-winged Hawks from the United States usually have the 

 irides brown, but ]Mr. Frank Iv. Burns writes me that they undergo 

 many changes from pearl-gray of the young, to yellow and in one 

 instance even red, and is inclined to think that the yellow irides are 

 probably that of fully adult birds. In two apparently fully adult 

 birds (one contained an egg ready for deposition, but was unfortu- 

 nately broken by the fall of the bird) shot by Mr. William Palmer 

 and me at San Diego de los Banos, western Cuba, the irides were 

 brown, as in the majority of northern birds, but on the labels of 

 three of Mr. Bang's specimens from eastern Cuba the color is 

 noted as "straw yellow, with a brown wash." Gundlach^ gives 

 the color of Cuban specimens as "ochraceous with an inclination 

 to dark gray," and in Porto Rican^ specimens as "ochraceous- 

 yellow, with a gray wash." 



2. Buteo platj^terus antillarum (Clark). 



Buteo pennsylvanicus Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., I, Oct. 15, 



1878, 194 (St. Vincent); Feb. 13, 1879, 273 (Grenada); May, 



1879, 487 (part).— Lister, Ibis, 1880, 43 (St. Vincent).— Allen, 

 Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, V, 1880, 169 (Santa Lucia).— Wells, 

 List Birds Grenada, 1886, 6; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IX, Feb. 11, 

 1887, 622 (Grenada; nest and eggs). — Sclater, P. Z. S. London, 

 1889, 395 (Santa Lucia). 



[Buteo] pennsylvanicus Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 22 (part). 

 Buteo latissimus Cory, Auk, 1887, 40 (part), 96 (Martinique); Birds W. 



I., 1889, 198 (part); Cat. Birds W. I., 1892, 99 (part; ? Martinique, 



? St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Bequia, Cannouan, Carriacou, ?Barbados). 

 Buteo antillarum Clark, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVIII, Feb. 21, 



1905, 62 (Chateaubelair, St. Vincent; type coll. E. A. & O. Bangs); 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., XXXII, No. 7, Oct., 1905, 241 (descr.; 



habits; eggs). 



» Orn. Cubana, 1895, 22. 



2 Anates Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., VII. 1878, 161. 



