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BurRNS—ON BROAD-WINGED HAWK. 15 
and above by three or four brownish gray, bands. Occiput, 
forehead, crown and neck, deep umber brown; each feather 
edged with dark rufous and often with medial streaks of the 
same color. Lower parts whitish, becoming rusty on flanks, 
sides and lower tail coverts and rich rufous on chest, thickly 
and heavily marked with hour-glass shaped patches of rich 
ferruginous or sienna brown; the markings becoming con- 
fluent on chest and sides and forming narrow distinct bars 
on flanks and thighs. Lower neck, throat, loral region and 
sides of head, deep rufous brown with indistinct narrow 
longitudinal lines of darker umber brown. Chin pale rufous, 
contrasting sharply with dark dusky mustache. Young: 
Above, much as in adult. Below, ochreous or pale rufous; 
lighter posteriorly and more heavily marked with tear-shaped 
umber brown spots most numerous on chest. Eyes white 
or pale straw at all ages and in both sexes. Biull bluish horn 
color; cere yellowish or sap green. Feet and legs greenish- 
yellow. 
Length 15. to 16. (330 to 406), Wing 8.50 to 9.50 (216 to 241) ; 
Tail 4.72 to 5.50 (125 to 140). Culmen .90 to 1.10 (23 to 41). Tar- 
sus 1.20 to 1.50 (80 to 38). Mliddle toe 1.25 to 1.60 (32 to 40).” A 
Hyatt Verrill, Addition to the Avi-fauna of Dominica, West Indies 
[Oct. 1965, unpaged]. 
BUTEO PLATYPTERUS INSULICOLA. 
~ Type, U. S: Naticnal Museum, No. 119,349, male adult, 
Antigua, British West Indies, May 29, 1890. Collected by 
Cyrus S. Winch. Frontal apex, lores, and a narrow line 
above and below eye whitish, with some stiff black bristles; 
top of head and auriculars grayish brown, with darker shaft 
streaks ; rictal streak darker; ccciput white, with the feathers 
tipped rather broadly with sooty brown; back and rump 
blackish brown, the feathers of the upper back barred at their 
bases with white, and slightly edged with wood brown, up- 
per tail-coverts black barred with white; tail black, tipped 
rather narrowly with dark drab and crossed by two rather 
wide white bars and an indication of a third that does not 
