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Mearns oil the Avierirau Sfarro-v Hawks. tl^'V 



the entire web, as in sparverius, but occur as sparse serrations of dusky 

 along outer extremity of shaft, sometimes approaching the condition of 

 whiteness seen in the light phase of F. domitiicensis, and in some speci- 

 mens from Florida. Female with more numerous and yellow spotting 

 below, and a redder tone to the under side of the tail. The dark bars of 

 the upper surface are narrower, those of the tail being more often incom- 

 plete. As the characters on which this subspecies is based are most 

 apparent in the female, a specimen of that sex has been selected as the 

 type. 



Type, No. 51, 636, Am. Mus. Coll., $ ad., Fort Verde, Arizona, April 

 29, 1884, Edgar A. Mearns. 



Adult male in summer (based on No. 51,641, Am. Mus. Coll., Fort 

 Verde, Arizona, May 23, 1884). — Back and crown patch, ochraceous buff; 

 sides of neck, buff; upper tail-coverts and tail, pale cinnamon rufous ; 

 back and scapulars slightly spotted and barred with black; tail subterm- 

 inally banded with black, and rather broadly tipped with ochraceous 

 buff, with three outer feathers mixed with whitish or pale cinereous, 

 crossed by irregular black bars, the outer feather white to the base. 

 Wings pale plumbeous; quills black, with more white than black on their 

 inner webs ; coverts with numerous oval or rhomboid black spots; edges 

 of crown light cinereous. Underparts cream-buff, with several irregular 

 rows of small black spots on the sides, the outermost being cordate and 

 the innermost linear. 



Adult male in zviutcr (Am. Mus. No. 51,654, Fort Verde, Arizona, 

 December 6, 1884). — Above pale vinaceous cinnamon rufous, the crown 

 patch plain rufous, covering nearly all of the top of the head; back and 

 scapulars sparingly barred with black. Tail tipped with white externally, 

 cinereous on tips of middle feathers ; outer feather white only on outer 

 web and towards tip, with two black spots on inner web; residue of tail 

 rufous, subterminally banded with black. Wings and edges of crown, 

 plumbeous; coverts sparsely spotted with larger, ovate or cordate, black 

 spots. Underparts pale buff, ochraceous buff on chest, sparingly spotted 

 with black on sides. 



Adult female i?t summer {ha&ed. on the type). — Above tawny ocjiraceous 

 buff, barred with dull black with plumbeous reflections; crown patch 

 plain, nearly covering the pale cinereous of the top of the head; quills 

 dusky, chiefly ferruginous white on their inner webs. Below cream-buff, 

 with chest and sides thickly streaked with yellowish clay-color; under 

 surface of tail vinaceous cinnamon. 



Adult female in ivinier (Am. Mus. No. 51,666, Fort Verde, Arizona, 

 January 11, 1888). — Above somewhat darker, inclining to cinnamon 

 rufous, with narrow black shaft-streaks to feathers of crown patch. Below 

 more heavily streaked, those of chest being broader, those of sides and 

 front of abdomen inclining to guttate. 



Touficr male. — Six young of the year, captured at Fort Verde, in the 

 American Museum collection, exhibit the following phases: No. 51,643, 

 July 18, 1884, is more like the adult male than either of the others, having 



