274 Riley, The Broad-winged Hawks of the West Indies. [jiiiv 



inner webs, the white extending to outer webs at extreme base; lining of 

 wing cream buff, sparsely spotted with small cinnamon spots; axillaries 

 creamy white, with rather narrow bars of mars brown along the shaft; chin 

 and throat white, with narrow dark brownish streakings; rest of underparts 

 white, barred, spotted, or streaked comparatively lightly with mars brown, 

 the streaking or barring heavier on the chest, decreasing on the abdomen,, 

 and ceasing entirely on the under tail-coverts; thighs narrowly barred 

 wth mars brown. Wing, 227; tail, 143; culmen, from cere, 18; tarsus,. 

 56; middle toe, 28.5 mm. 



Immature female.— U. S. National Museum, No. 191126, Antigua, B. 

 W. I., Sept. 7, 1903. Collected by H. G. S. Branch. 



Superciliary region and sides of face white, with a few fine brown streak- 

 ings, these markings slightly heavier on the post-oculai' streak, and more 

 so on the rictal streak; lores, frons and top of head white, broadly streaked 

 with blackish brown, the region in question having the appearance of 

 being equally streaked with brown and white, the streaks much finer on 

 lores and frons; cervix and sides of neck white, broadly streaked withi 

 sepia brown; mantle and rimip sepia, the feathers narrowly edged -nitb 

 cinnamon-rufous, this edging more pronounced on the nunp; upper tail- 

 coverts white, barred with black; upper surface of tail white at the base, 

 this color continuing a short distance down the shaft of the middle feathers,, 

 and down the inner web of the outer feathers almost to the tip, remainder 

 of tail hair brown, narrowly edged with white at the tip, with a sub-termi- 

 nal band of clove-brown, and four or five irregular bars of lighter brown;. 

 lesser wing-coverts sepia, with narrow edgings of cinnamon-rufous; middle 

 and greater wing-coverts sepia, irregularly barred and edged with white 

 and a little cinnamon-rufous; alula sepia, white on the inner webs of the 

 feathers, with sepia barrings and some cinnamon-rufous edgings; primary 

 coverts white at the base, on the inner webs, and edging at the tip, sepia 

 on the outer web and inner web on tenninal portion with just a trace of 

 cinnamon-rufous, the inner web obsoletely barred with brown; primaries 

 dark brown, darker on the outer feathers, and becoming lighter on the 

 others towards the base, until the ground color of the whole feather grad- 

 ually becomes unifonn dark hair browTi on the outer web, all (except the 

 first) narrowly edged at the tip and rather broadly at the base on the outer 

 web with white, the white on the outer web stippled vdih. bro'n'n, the inner 

 webs of all the feathers (as far as the emargination on the outer three, and 

 further on the rest) white, barred -nith black; these bars extend across 

 the brown of the outer but never reach entirely across the white of the 

 inner web; secondaries dark hair brown, white on the inner web, and edged 

 with white at tip and barred with black; tertials white, barred with 

 sepia; scapvilars white, barred and tipped with sepia; lining of wing pink- 

 ish bufT, with a few faint shaft streaks at carpal joint; below creamy white, 

 the jugulum crossed by a scattering band of sparse tear-shaped spots of" 

 sepia, the rest of the underparts almost immaculate, except for a few small 

 scattering spots on the flanks, and a few hair lines of sepia on the breastp 

 thighs creamy buff, rather sparsely marked with V-shaped sepia bars. 



