CASSIN'S BARRED HAWK 



rufous and buff spots crossing hindneck ; tail with 

 tip and six cross bars, white; under parts white 

 heavily barred with brown and washed with 

 rufous; under wing coverts white spotted and 

 barred with brown. 



A large hawk of typical Accipiter build with 

 an elongated crest. A rare species confined to 

 forests. 



5. Micrastur guerilla interstes Bangs 

 Cassin's Barred Hawk 



Length, about 355 mm. (14.00 in.; (tail, about 

 178 mm. (7.00 in.). 



Male. Above blackish slate including sides 

 of head to cheeks, the wings passing to brown; 

 tail tipped with white and crossed by three white 

 bars not conspicuous on under surface; throat 

 and cheeks pale gray; remaining under parts 

 dull white thickly and narrowly cross-barred 

 with blackish, bars narrower and sparser on 

 abdomen; under surface of wings barred. Bill 

 horn, cere yellowish; feet yellow. Tail long. 



Female. Resembling male, the bars below 

 broader and darker but similar in distribution. 



Young. Head including sides blackish; back 

 brown with indistinct rufous bars, feathers of 

 nape and sides of neck elongated and spotted 

 with buff, forming a conspicuous ruff; tail 

 blackish with four white cross bars; under parts 

 white and excepting throat, barred with brown. 

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