with DesGr'ijpUons of New Species. 255 



3. Accipiter fringilloides, Vigors. 



Accipiter fringilloides, Vig. Zool. Journ, III, 1827, p, 434. 

 Msus fr'mgilloidcs, D'Orbig, (R. de la Sag.) 1840, p. 18. 

 Accipiter fringilloides, Gray, List Birds, Brit. Mas. 1848, p. 71 ; Bon. 

 Cons. Av. I. 1850, p. 32 ; Strick. Orn. Syn- 

 1855, p. 108, sub A.fuscus. 

 Asiurjuscus, Leoib. Av. Isl. Cub. 1850, p. 16. 

 Nisus fringilloides etfuscus, Lemb. Av. Isl. Cub. Cat. p. 128. 

 " fuscus, Gund. Jour. f. Orn. Nov. 1854. 



Adult male. The entire iipper plumage is of a bluish slate color, 

 darker on the head ; the tail brownish, crossed with five bands of blackish 

 brown and ending with white ; primaries brown ; sides of the head and of 

 the neck of a uniform bright rufous (not of a deep color) and without dark 

 striae ; chin and throat pale rufous white unspotted ; under plumage 

 white, with narrow transverse bars of pale rufous on the breast ; and on 

 the abdomen, sides, and thighs with very faint narrow bars of pale 

 rufous brown, almost obsolete on the lower part of the abdomen and 

 thighs ; under tail-coverts pure white ; bill black, plumbeous at base ; 

 legs yellow. 



Length about lOi inches ; wing 61 ; tail 4| : tarsus 1|. 



Adult female, from Dr. Gundlach's collection. It is larger than the 

 male, and is more distinctly barred on the breast, the thighs rather 

 lightly so ; it has the unspotted rufous cheeks, and the lower part of the 

 abdomen is white, as in the male. 



A young male from Dr. Gundlacli is umber brown above, 

 with the cheeks of a reddish brown streaked with dusky ; the 

 breast blotched with light brown, and bars of darker brown on 

 the abdomen ; lower part of abdomen and thighs white with 

 faint brown transverse markings. 



A young female is paler umber brown above, the sides of 

 the head and neck having dusky streaks and showing scarcely 

 any coloring of rufous ; sagittate blotches on the breast of a 

 pale rufous brown, with narrow transverse waving lines on the 

 abdomen and thighs of a paler brown. 



