104 



. other specimens examined. — In mns. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia, 18; American Mns., 

 New York, 3; Boston Soc. N. H., 4 ; Miis. Comp. ZooL, Cambridge, 3; G. N. Lawrence, 

 9 ; W. S. Brewer, 1 ; L. Jouy, 1 ; C. E. Aiken, 1 ; S. F. Baird, 6 ; R. Eidgway, 7. Total 

 number of specimens examined, 12S. 



Collectors' notes on color of eyes, etc., including fresh measurements (Xational Museum speci- 

 mens). 



No. 4352 : length, 18.00 ; extent, 31.00. 



No. 5163: length, 17.00; extent, 29.25; iris light yellow. 



No. 5164: length, '?; extent, 30.50; iris light yellow. 



No. 5578: length, 18.25; extent, 25.00. 

 No. 5579: length, 15.00 ; extent, 24.00. 

 No. 5846: length, 19.00; extent, 30.00. 

 No. 11791 : length, 15.00 ; extent, 23.00. 

 No. 12024 : length, 17,00 ; extent, 29.00. 

 No. 17206: length, 16.00 ; extent, 27.00. 

 No. 17207 : length, 17.00 : extent, 29.00. 

 No. 17208 : length, 17.00 ; extent, 29.00. 

 No. 17209 : length, 16.00 ; extent, 28.20. 



No. 46621 : length, 17.00; extent, 30.50 ; bill pile blue at base, growing gradually 

 hlack at end ; cere greenish-yellow ; iris bright orange-red ; tarsi and toes iemou-yellow. 

 No. 46622: length, 19.00; extent, 33.50. 



i^ISUS GU^^DLACHL 



Astur cooperi Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 17. — Cabaxis, Jouru. fiir Orn 

 Nov. 1854, — . 

 Accipiter cooperii Brewer, Pr. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1860, p. — . 

 Nisus pilcatus Lemb. Av. Cuba, Supplement, p. 125. 



Accipiter pileatus Brewer, Pr. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 18G0, p. — . 

 Accipiter mexicanus Brewer, Pr. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1860, p. — . 

 Accipiter f/undlachi Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y. May, 1860, 2.52. — Gundlach, Eepert. 

 1865, 224.— ScL. & Salvix, Exotic Orn. xi, 1869, 170 : Noni. Neotr. 1873, p. 120.— 

 Gray, Hand List, i, 1869, 33, No. 319.— Sharpe, Cat. Ace. Brit. Mus. 1874, 137 

 (foot-note). 

 Xisus cooperi var. f/undlachi Eidgway, B. B. & E. Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 22 



Hah.—Cnha (^Rt. Mus.). 



Diagnosis. — Adult male :—" Front, crown, aud occiput sooty black; 

 upper plumage dull bluisli-ash, the leathers of the back with brownish 

 margins ; tail of the same color as the back, partly tinged with dull 

 rufous, and crossed with four brown bars, three of which are imperfect, 

 being but little developed on the outer webs ; the outer bar, however, 

 crosses both webs and is narrowly tipped with white. Qaill feathers 

 brown, having their shafts, as are also those of the tail feathers, red- 

 dish-brown ; cheeks dusky ash ; space forward of the eye pale dull 

 rufous ; a line of whitish feathers runs along the edge of the crown and 

 extends over the eye; throat ashy-white, tinged with rufous; sides of 

 the neck, upper part of the breast, and a band running to the hind- 

 neck grayish-ash ; lower portion of the breast and upper part of the 

 abdomen rufous, the feathers very narrowly edged with dull white ; 

 lower part of the abdomen of a pale rufous, with transverse bars of dull 

 white. Long feathers of the sides grayish-ash tinged with rufous and 

 destitute of bars or spots; sides, just above the junction of the tail, 

 plain rufous ; thighs of a bright but rather pale rufous, the feathers 

 having darker submargiual ends, terminating with very narrow edgings 

 of dull white; under wing-coverts and axillars bright rufous barred with 

 white. The feathers of the throat, breast, and sides have their shafts 

 dark brown; upper tail coverts grayish ash, lower white; bill horn-color, 

 with a whitish mark on the tooth and also on the edge of the lower 

 mandible near its base; legs greenish-yellow."* 



" Length about 18 inches ; wing from flexure 9| ; tail 7f ; tarsus 2f ." — 

 (Lawrence, I. c.) 



* Dr. Gundlach (Lawrence, Z. c. p. 7) adds : — Cere and cheeks (i e. orbits ?) greenish- 

 yellow ; feet pale yellow with a greenish hue ; iris red ; length 0.457 ; extent 0.807. 



