Burns—On BroAD-WINGED HaAwkK. 157 
along the edge. Upper tail-coverts with concealed pale gray- 
ish brown, crossed at about 1.50 in. from the end by a broad 
band (about 1 in. wide) of brownish-gray, becoming white 
on the edges of inner webs, and approaching white on the 
anterior portion of the band on the middle rectrices; another 
much narrower and much less distinct dull grayish band 
crosses the tail about 4.75 in. from the tip, the portion on in- 
net webs more or less whitish on some of the feathers, but on 
none extending clearly to the edge of the webs; extreme base 
of the tail light sooty grayish. Feathers of the head, neck 
and body, above and below, sooty grayish beneath the sur- 
face, the extreme base even scarcely approaching white; the 
feathers of the entire occiput, however, abruptly snow-white 
for about the basal half. Forehead entirely sooty blackish, 
but anterior portion of the lores grayish white, finely streaked 
with black. Wing 11.50 (291). Wing form. 3, 4-5-2-6-7-8- 
9-1, 10; outer three primaries abruptly and deeply emargin- 
ated on inner webs; tail 7.00 (178); culmen. 80 (20); tar- 
sus 2.40 (61); middle toe 1.40 (36). Mr. Preston says: 
“This is the third specimen that I have seen, 12 years since 
my attention was called to a peculiar little black hawk flying 
with a number of B. pennsylvanicus. In the spring of 1884 
I came very near securing another which was in migration 
with others of the species. The present example was shot by 
myself in a small oak grove. A number of Broadwings were 
sheltered in the woods at the time, as a cold storm prevailed. 
Oya much enlarged and iris red. Ridgway. 
BUTEO PLATYPTERUS ANTILLARUM. 
“Type—From Chateaubelair, St. Vincent (British West 
Indies), Sept. 24. 1903) No. 12°825, male adult, coll. E. A. 
and O. Bangs. Characters—Somewhat similar to Buteo 
platypterus Vieill., but smaller and more rufous, the rufous 
edgings to the feathers above wider, the underparts more ru- 
fous, and the thighs buff, more thickly barred than B. pla- 
typterus. In the young the ground color below is buffy- 
white, becoming darker on the abdomen and thighs. Iris 
