79 



Wing $ 392 mm. ; tail uniform rufous, 

 with one very nanow sub-terminal band ; 

 flanks and thighs hght rufous ; juv., tail 

 barred, and flanks and thighs sparsely 

 barred with i-ufous. 



143g. Bitteo borealis umbrinits Bangs, Pr. New S. Florida, 

 Engl. Zool. CI. ii., p. 67(1901). [Myakka, Bahamas, 

 Manatee Co., Floiida, type in M.C.Z., Cuba. 

 Harvard.] 

 Florida Red-tail. 



Si/e of B. bofealis borealis (wing (J 376-392, 

 ? 420-430 mm. ), but darker above ; throat 

 and middle of belly \\ith broad conspicuous 

 striping and banding of deep chocolate 

 brown ; tail feathers rufous, with broad 

 sub-terminal black band and dark brown 

 markings (remains of bands) near shaft. 



143h. Buieo borealis jamaicensis (Gmel.), S.N., i., Jamaica. 



p. 266 (1788). [Jamaica.} San Domingo,^ 



Jamaica Red-tail. Porto Rico ? 



Wing S 330-345, ? 352-373 mm. ; above 

 sooty brownish with purplish gloss and 

 ferruginous edgings ; tail ferruginous red, 

 with sub-terminal black band ; wing quills 

 rich brown, barred with black ; below 

 white tinged buff ; throat streaked with 

 dusky, chest moie thickly with ferruginous; 

 a dusky zone across abdomen ; thighs 

 barred ferruginous. 



1 B. iropicalis \'^errill is a synonym, described from an immature San Domingo 

 Ibird. 



