250 I^otes on Some Cuban Birds, 



on the vertex, and liave broad spots or imperfect bars on both 

 •webs of the outer tail feather. 



Two others, also adult males, have the red spot on the crown, 

 are nearly white below, and very much spotted ; they have 

 the inner web of the outer tail feather rufous but unspotted ; 

 the outer web is white, and in one of them there are black 

 spots next the shaft on the outer web. 



The adult males have the back and scapulars generally 

 rufous, in some cases partly slate-blue, the wing-coverts and 

 tertiaries greyish-blue, with black spots more numerous than in 

 sparveroides ; the lower part of the abdomen and thighs nearly 

 white. 



Four adult females (or birds in the plumage generally assigned 

 to this sex) .have the crown dark slate-blue, three of them with 

 the red central spot ; the back, wing-coverts, and tail deep 

 rufous, closely barred with black ; the under plumage of one is 

 dull rufous (not dark), the others are very pale rufous, and all 

 are largely marked below with longitudinal spots of rufous 

 brown. 



The characters in which the two species differ most are as 

 follows : 



T. sparveroides, adult male. The upper plumage dark slate- 

 blue, and being without the red spot on the crown ; in many 

 specimens the under parts are very deep rufous, including the 

 thighs, and almost unspotted ; the outer tail feathers without 

 bars. 



The young male is very little spotted below. 



The adult female has the dark markings beneath of a trans- 

 verse character. 



The young female is sparingly marked below with small 

 longitudinal stripes of pale rufous. In the males that have the 

 deep rufous color below, the light markings on the inner webs 

 of the primaries are bluish-grey, and the dark bars blackish- 

 grey ; the birds that are light colored below have these mark- 

 ino-s more defined and almost white and black. 



