il/r. R. B. Sharpe's Catalogue of Accipitres. 559 



tioned — viz. a male from Guadeloupe, another from Dominica, 

 and a male and female from St. Lucia. 



The Guadeloupe male, which seems to be fully adult, 

 greatly resembles the two males from St. Croix already de- 

 scribed, but has more of the curious mingling of rufous with 

 the grey and black of the wing-coverts, as it extends, in this 

 specimen, to the greater as well as to the lesser and median 

 coverts ; one of the most variegated feathers of the greater 

 coverts shows four transverse black bars, with the interspaces 

 rufous slightly mingled with grey, and a grey tip*; the rec- 

 trices show black spots on the edges of the outer webs, like 

 those in the males from St. Croix ; and it is observable that, 

 the central pair having been moulted, the partly grown new 

 pair are similarly spotted on both webs. 



The male from Dominica is a similar but apparently a 

 younger bird, the rectrices, which are much worn, being 

 regularly crossbarred, as in the female of T. sparverius, except 

 that the subterminal bar is decidedly broader ; these bars, 

 which are seven in number, besides the subterminal one, are 

 perhaps a remnant of the first immature plumage ; and some 

 slight vestiges of crossbarring on the rump are probably 

 also due to the remains of immaturity. This specimen shows 

 some mingling of rufous on the greater wing-coverts, but 

 not on the lesser or median. 



In the male from St. Lucia the tail is crossbarred, and the 

 rump partially so, as in the male from Dominica, the trans- 

 verse bars on the tail numbering six besides the subterminal 

 one. In this specimen the scapulars and interscapulars are 

 broadly barred with black almost to the nape, the wing- 

 coverts are dark grey, much interspersed with large slaty- 

 black spots, but with no intermingling of rufous ; the crown 

 of the head is a dark slate-colour, with but a very faint tinge 

 of rufous on the occiput, this being the only specimen of 



* I have observed somewliat similar feathers in the greater wing- 

 coverts of two males, in the second plumage, of T. sparvei'ius — one from 

 Northern Yucatan, the other from Nicaragua ; with these exceptions, I 

 have not met with any admixture of rufous in the wing-coverts of the 

 adult or nearly adult males of T. sparverius. 



