220 BIRDS OF BERMUDA. 
Length: Female, 12 to 14; male, 10 to 11 inches. Wing: female, 8 to 
9; male, 74 to 8. Tail: female, 5 to 54; male, 5. 
Hab.—Temperate North America, Mexico, Central America, North- 
ern South America, Cuba, Jamaica, Bermuda, Ecuador, Venezuela. 
A frequent visitor, always in the autumn and wintermonths. Hardly 
a year passes without a few stragglers appearing. I saw one flying 
over Devonshire Swamp on the 2d November, and obtained a beautiful 
male from the same place on the 3d December, 1874. 
Sub-genus TINNUNCULUS, Vieil. 
82. Falco sparverius, Linn. American Sparrow-Hawk. 
Falco sparverius, Linu, Gm., Lath., Daud., Wils., Cuv., Jard., Brewer, Bp., 
Sw. & Rich., Nutt., Aud., Vieil., and late authors. 
Falco (Tinnunculus) sparverius, of some authors, Ridg., B. B. & R. 
Tinnunculus sparverius, Vieil, Gray, Bp., Cass, Coues, and many authors. 
Cerchneis sparverius, Boie, Bp. 
Pecilonis sparverius, Kaup. 
Length, 11 to 12; wing, 7 to 74; tail, 5 to 53. 
Hab.—The whole of North America and southward (Coues). 
Only one recorded, shot near the Sluice Ponds on the 9th December, 
1853, while in the act of pouncing on some chickens (Nat. in B., p. 24). 
Sub-family BUTEONIN As. 
Genus BUTEO, Cuv. 
83. Buteo borealis, (Gm.) Vieil. Eastern Red-tailed Buzzard; Hen- 
Hawk. 
Falco borealis, Gm., Lath., Daud., Wils., Sabine, Bp., Wagl., Nutt., Aud. 
Buteo borealis, Vieil, Sw. & Rich., Vig., Less., Jard., Brewer, Bp., Aud., Gosse, 
Cass., and late authors. 
Astur borealis, Cuv., Sw. 
Pecilopternis borealis, Kaup. 
Buteo (Craxirex) borealis, Gray. 
Falco leverianus, Gm., Lath, Daud., Shaw, Wils. 
Falco jamaicensis, Gm. 
Buteo ferrugineicaudus, Vieil, Cuy. 
Accipiter ruficaudus, Vieil. 
Buteo fulvus, Vieil. 
Buteo americanus, Vieil. 
Female: Length, 22 to 24; wing, 15 to 16; tail, 84. Male: Length, 
19 to 21; wing, 14; tail, 74 to 8. 
Hab.—Whole of North America, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica (Coues). 
Mr. Bartram has one specimen, an adult, with fine chestnut tail, shot 
at Baylis’s Bay, about twelve years ago, by a man named Hollis, who 
is still residing in the islands, the same who shot the two Peregrine 
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