252 Notes on some Cuban Birds, 



of its tail, it is very much like the Cuban female. Mr. Saus- 

 sure does not give the sex of his bird. 



If Dr. Gundlach is correct in the identity of the species from 

 St. Domingo and Cuba, Gmelin's name of Dorninicensis will 

 have priority. 



2. Accipiter Grnidlachi, nov. sp. 



Astur Coo2)eri, Lembeye, Aves. Isl. Cuba, 1850, p. lY. 

 Nistis pileatus, " " Supplement. 



Astur pileatus, Gund. Journ. fur Orn. Nov. 1854. 

 " Cooperi, Cabanis " " 



Adult male. Front, crown, and occiput sooty black ; upper plumage 

 dull bluish ash, the feathers of the back with brownish margins ; tail 

 of the same color as the back, partly tinged with dull rufous and crossed 

 with four brown bars, three of which are imperfect, being but little 

 developed on the outer webs, the outer bar, however, crosses both webs, 

 and is narrowly tipped with white ; quill feathers brown, having the 

 shafts, as are also those of the tail feathers, reddish brown ; cheeks 

 dusky ash ; space forward of the eye pale dull rufous ; a line of whitish 

 feathers runs along the edge of the crown and extends over the eye ; 

 throat ashy white tinged with rufous ; sides of the neck, upper part of 

 the breast, and a band running to the hind neck, greyish ash ; lower 

 portion of the breast and upper part of the abdomen rufous, the feathers 

 very narrowly edged with dull white, lower part of abdomen of a paler 

 rufous, with transverse bars of dull white ; long feathers of the sides 

 greyish ash tinged with rufous and destitute of bars or spots ; sides just 

 above the junction of the tail plain rufous ; thighs of a bright but rather 

 pale rufous, the feathers having darker sub-marginal ends, terminating 

 with very narrow edgings of dull white ; under wing-coverts and axillars 

 bright rufous barred with white ; the feathers of the throat, breast, and 

 sides have their shafts dark brown ; upper tail-covers greyish ash, lower 

 white ; bill horn color, with a whitish mark on the tooth and also on 

 the edge of the lower mandible near its base ; legs greenish yellow. 



Length about 18 inches ; wing from flexure 9| ; tail 7f ; tarsus 2|. 



