1 86 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus ACCIPTTER Brisson. 

 SuuGENUs ACCIFITER. 



Accipiter Briss. Cm. I. 1760, 310. Type, by elimination, Falco nisus 

 Linn. 



332. Accipiter velox (Wils.). 



Shurp-sliiuued Hawk. 



Falco velox Wils. Am. Orn. V. 1812, 116, pi. 45, fig. i. 

 Accipiter velox Vigors, Zool. Journ. I. 1824, 338. 



[B17, C338, R 432, C 494.] 

 Had. North America in general, south to Panama. 



333. Accipiter cooperi (Bonap.). 



Cooper's Hawk. 



Falco cooperi Bonap. Am. Orn. IT. 182S, i, pi. x. fig. i. 

 Accipiter cooperi (^-^w, List B. Brit. Mus. Accipitre.s, 1844, 38- 



[B 15, 16, C 339, R 431, C 495.] 



Hab. North America in general, south to Southern Mexico. 



Subgenus ASTUR LACfirfeoE. 



Astnr LAcfip. Mem. de I'lnst. III. 1801, 505. Type, Falco palmtiba- 

 rius Linn. 



334. Accipiter atricapillus (Wils.). 



American Goshawk. 



Falco atricapillus WiLS. Am. Orn. VI. 1812, 80, pl. 52, fig. 3. 

 Accipiter atricapillus Seeboh.m, Brit. Birds, I. 18S3, iv. 



[B 14, C 340, R 433, C 496.] 



Hab. Northern and Eastern North America, breeding mostly north 

 of the United States, south in winter to the Middle States. Acciden- 

 tal in England. 



334 dt. Accipiter atricapillus striatuluD Ridgw. 



"Western Goshawk. 



Astnr atricapillus var. striatulus Ridgw. in Hist. N. Am. B. III. 



1874, 240. 

 Accipiter atricapillus striatulus Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII. 



^^^s, 355. 



