454 Mr. Vigors's Sketches in Ornithology. 



able ouiselves or others, from judiciously and comprehensiToly 

 combining the results of our labours, to confer true interest upon 

 our pursuits. Should we com-nit an errour in these petty, but 

 still necessary details, we can repair it as soon as it has been de- 

 tected. No injury accrues to science from the errour, no dis- 

 credit to ourselves from the acknowledgment of it. And, when 

 w« confine our descriptions to such subjects as may be easily re- 

 ferred to and examined, we encrease the legitimate materials of 

 science ; while at the same time we diminish the number of those 

 truly nominal species, which, characterized from unauthentick 

 drawings, or still more vague hearsay, swell the catalogues of our 

 numerous compilers, and may be said with justice to '* live in 

 description " only. 



The following forty-five species occur among these birds from 

 Cuba. There are a few other specimens in the collection, which 

 appear to be those of young birds, and some also which have 

 suffered injury in their passage, and are not in a fit state for com- 

 parison or description. I have made some observations on all 

 these subjects to Mr. MacLeay, and hope shortly to have more 

 authentick information respecting them, as well as an addition to 

 their number. I shall then continue the list now enumerated. 



1. PoLYBOauS BUASILIENSIS. 



Polyborus vulgaris. Fieill., Gal. des Ois. pi. vii. 

 Milvus Brasiliensis. Ti(iy^ Syn. Meth. Av.j). 17. 

 Falco Brasiliensis. Gmel., I. p. 262. no. 64. 

 Erazilian Kite, called Cara^ara. Willughbi/y Ornith. 

 p. 75. t. 9. Lath., Gen. Hist. I. p. 274. no. 218. 



This species seems to be very widely dispersed over the New 

 World. It is said to be common in Brazil. Specimens are in the 

 collection of the Zoological Society, brought by Mr. Bullock from 

 Mexico.* 



^ 2. '^ ACCIPITER FRlNGILLOIDtS. 



Acc. supra cinereo-griseus. siibius albus brunnescenti-fusco 

 gracililer fusciatus, rectricibus fasciis quinque saturate fuscls. 



* It has also been found in tl>e Straits of Magellan. Sec this Vol. p. 423. 



