556 Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notes on 



Females {continued). 



Depth of 



subter- 



Midclle minal bar 



Wing. Tarsus, toe s. u. Ciilmen. on tail. 



in. in. in. in. in. 



^. n r.. .-, ..T ,r . ( 7-65 1-40 1-00 0-50 

 Five from Chile (N.M. and L^ ^^ ^^ ^^ 



coll. S. &G.) jg.-^Q ^.gy ^.-^Q Q.gg 



Bahia (coll. S. & G.) 7-45 1-45 1-00 0-55 



Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 



(coll. S. & G.) 810 1-50 0-90 0-50 



Falkland Islands (N.M.).... 8-15 1-40 llO 0'50 



Mr. Sharpe^ in his article on T. sparverius, states that its 

 range extends to the Antilles ; but the Kestrel inhabiting the 

 lesser West-Indian Islands appears to me to be subspecifically 

 distinct from the typical T. sparverius. The Kestrels of the 

 several islands of the Antilles are probably all referable to 

 the same subspecies^ notwithstanding slight divergencies 

 which exist between those which inhabit some of the different 

 islands of that group. 



Mr. Ridgway, in his elaborate article on the American 

 Kestrels^ to which I have already referred^ styles the Kestrel 

 of the Antilles " Falco sparverius, var. dominicensis -/' but 

 he subsequently writes " I find on further investigation that 

 it should bear the name of antillarum, Gmel., dominicensis, 

 being, as I now conclude, the bird which I have called leuco- 

 phrys"*. I entirely agree with Mr. Ridgway that " antil- 

 larum " is the correct subspecific name for the race of Kestrels 

 inhabiting the Antilles, being founded on Brisson^s " Eme- 

 rillon des Antilles," and that Falco dominicensis, Gmel., is 

 the species common to St. Domingo and Cuba, which has 

 been subsequently called leucophrys. 



Excluding, for the present, from our view those parts of 

 the West Indies in which the occurrence of T. antillarum has 

 not been recorded or ascertained, we have to consider the 

 Kestrels which inhabit the several islands of Porto Rico, St. 

 Thomas, Santa Cruz, St. Bartholomew, Barbuda, Antigua, 

 Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Lucia, 

 * Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, p. 66. 



