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T. sjmrveriusy adult male. The back usually rufous, and the 

 vertex generally with the red spot, but not always ; many of 

 the quite adult birds are much s})Otted on the under plumage, 

 and when rufous on these parts, it is never of the deep 

 brown shade seen in the Cuban bird; the thighs are light 

 colored or white, and the outer tail feather usually barred. 

 The inner webs of the primaries are barred with black and 

 wbite, with no approach to the grey shades of the other 

 species. 



The females are marked below with large longitudinal blotches 

 of brownish rufous. 



I feel well satisfied that the two species are distinct, for with 

 thirteen specimens from Cuba before me, there is not one which 

 does not differ in some of the characters pointed out from the 

 eight United States birds. 



D'Orbigny, in the Hist, of Cuba, gives a very accurately 

 colored figure of the male sparveroides in the dark plumage, 

 but he considers it a variety of sparverius. 



Vigors, in the Zool. Journal, describes the light-colored indi- 

 viduals from Cuba as sparmrius., though apparently with some 

 doubt as to its correctness. 



Mr. Saussure's description and plate cited above appear to 

 resemble the dark-colored female sjmrveroides, as stated by 

 Dr. Gundlach. He, however, puts his bird in Hypotriorchisy 

 and a comparison of the plate with a female from Cuba, shows 

 some important differences; the back, wing-coverts, and smaller 

 quills, are of the same dark color as the head in his figure, not 

 ferruginous, transversely banded with black, as in the Cuban 

 female ; some of the tips of the wing-coverts and of the quills only 

 being edged with pale rufous ; in the plate there is no appear- 

 ance of the white spot under the eye, and instead of the whitish 

 throat and chin of the Cuban bird, the dark ferruginous color 

 of the under plumage extends up to the bill, with a line of 

 white separating the color of the throat from the dark color of 

 the cheeks ; in its under plumage otherwise, and the markings 



