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in two fall specimens coniin<j;, respectively, from Louisiana 

 (Covington, November 15, 1SS9, G. Kohn) and Pennsylvania 

 (No. 1753, Carlisle, November 35. 1S44, Spencer F. Baird). 

 The two palest males are from Florida (No. no, Miakka, April 

 10, 18S7, J. C. Gaboon, No. 5306, collection of G. S. Miller, 

 Jr.) and Connecticut (No. 939, Portland, April i3, 1SS7, Jno. 

 H. Sage), taken in spring. The Florida specimen is entirely 

 immaculate below, with only a trace of the usual transverse spot- 

 ting on the back and longest scapulars, and with a moderate 

 amount of black spotting on the wing-coverts ; while the Connecti- 

 cut bird has less spotting than usual in northern specimens. The 

 former shows some resemblance to the light phase of the West In- 

 liian I^. dominicensis\\\ the blueness of the top of the head, and 

 whiteness of the under surface of the wing, in which the black- 

 ish transverse bars are obsolete on the outermost feather except 

 on its terminal half, where they do not cross the entire web ; but 

 it has a large rusty crown patch, and a well-developed black 

 moustache, besides lacking the white front and superciliary line 

 and having the tail entirely different. In these two specimens 

 the breast is very slightly tinged with ochraceous buff. In a 

 specimen (No. 1301) collected by Mr. Frank M. Chapman at 

 Pine Island, Florida, January 30, 188S, there is also considerable 

 resemblance to the pale phase of^. dominicensis. The crown 

 is of precisely the same shade of bluish ash, and lacks the rusty 

 centre ; the breast is tinged with more nearly the same shade of 

 ochraceous ; but otherwise it is as in sparveritis. A resem- 

 blance to the West Indian species is also seen in No. 6, Miami, 

 Florida, March, 1S51, collected by Mr. F. C. Browne. This 

 bird has the black moustache reduced and mixed with white, 

 and has quite strong indications of the white forehead and supercil- 

 iary stripe ; and the outer web of the outer tail-feather is white with 

 one black spot on the inner web in addition to the one pertain- 

 ing to the subterminal zone ; otherwise as in typical sparverins. 

 Other specimens (as No. 100,150, Smiths. Inst.) from Florida 

 exhibit considerable whitening of the under surface of the wing. 

 Considering the absence of summer specimens in the series be- 

 fore me, I should say that the resident Sparrow Hawk of Florida 

 is probably paler than that of the New England and Middle 

 States, though many of the winter birds are rather highly col. 

 ored ; that it is much less spotted, especially on the under sur- 



