160 Tue Wirson BuLLETIN—Nos. 76-77. 
reach the shaft on individual feathers; scapulars color of the 
back, strongly barred with white fer about two-thirds of their 
length, basally; primaries dull black on the outer web and 
tip, white on the inner web as far as the emargination on the 
outer feathers, but not reaching the shaft except at the base, 
the black increasing in area from the outer feathers inward 
and turning to dark brown at the base and tip, leaving a large 
subterminal black band, a small black spot appearing on the 
inner web on the edge of the white of the second outer 
feather, increasing in number and intensity inwards on the 
other primaries, where they become interrupted bars not 
reaching entirely across the white to the inner web, however; 
secondaries and tertials grayish brown with a dull black sub- 
terminal band, the inner webs of the outer and the inner 
webs and bases of the inner feathers white, barred with dark 
brown; wing-coverts grayish brown; primary coverts dull 
blackish brown, irregularly barred with white on basal two- 
thirds of inner webs, the white extending to only webs at 
extreme base; lining of wing cream buff; sparsely spotted 
with small cinnamon spots; axillaries creamy white, with 
rather narrow bars of mars brown along the shaft; chin and 
throat white, with narrow dark brownish streakings; rest 
of underparts white, barred spotted or streaked compara- 
tively lightly with mars brown, the streakings barring heavier 
on the chest, decreasing on the abdomen, and ceasing en- 
tirely cn the under tail-coverts; thighs narrowly barred with 
mars brown. 
Wing (8.94) 227; tail (5.68) 143; culmen, from cere (.71) 18; 
tarsus, (2.20) 56; middle toe, (1.10) 28.5 mm. J. H. Riley. Auk, 
XXV, July, 1908, pp. 273-274. 
Synonymy. 
Wilson being the first to properly figure and describe this 
species, in 1812 bestowed upon it the name of Falco pennsyl- 
vanicus (Penn's Woods Falcon); but as he had previously 
so-named his Slate-colored Hawk, an immature Accipiter ve- 
lox, and did not live to correct his error, it of course resulted 
