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however, it is not uncommon on both sides of the mountain-chain, and is also found as 

 high as 8000 feet on the Volcan de Fuego. Mr. Townsend met with it at Trujillo near 

 the coast of Honduras ; and Mr. Richardson has sent us a good series of examples from 

 Matagalpa and its neighbourhood. These latter inclu-de adult specimens of both sexes, 

 showing that in this state the upper plumage is dark slate-colour, and not dark brown 

 as in the bird iigured in ' Exotic Ornithology.' 



5. Accipiter tinus. 



Falco tinus, Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 50 \ 



Accipiter tinus. Gray, Gen. Birds, i. p. 29, t. 10 ^ Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 158 ' ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus. i. p. 139"; Cherrie, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 537 '. 

 Accipiter collaris (nee Kaup), Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 462 ^ 



Supra griseo-fuscus, capite summo obscuriore ; alis nigricantibus, fusco indistincte fasciatis : subtus gula alba, 

 pectore, abdomine toto et tectrioibus subcaudalibus albis, soMstaceo frequenter trausfasciatis ; subalaribus 

 albis, nigricante maculatis ; remigibus subtus fuscis, albo trausfasciatis ; Cauda schistacea, nigro quadri- 

 fasciata, rectricibus externis in pogonio externo albo maculatis : rostro nigro, cera et pedibus flavis. 

 (Descr. maris ex Eemedios, Colombia. Mus. nostr.) 



2 mari similis, sed major. 



Juv. Supra cinnamomeo-rufus, capite summo nigricante : subtus albus, rufo transfasciatus ; cauda rufa, fasciis 

 sex nigricantibus notata. 



Hal. Nicaragua, Greytown {Alfaro ^) ; Panama, Santiago de Veraguas {Arce ^), Line 

 of Railway (M'Leannan^). — South America generally, to Guiana and BraziH. 



This, the smallest of South-American Sparrow-Hawks, is widely spread over the 

 southern continent, occurring in Colombia and thence eastwards to Guiana and 

 southwards to Eastern Brazil. In Central America it is apparently much more rare, 

 and it has, so far as we know, only been met with three times, twice in the State of 

 Panama and once in Nicaragua. The only specimen received by us came from 

 Santiago de Veraguas, and is a young bird in its rufous plumage, which it was changing 

 for the ash-colour of the adult when shot. The specimen secured by Don A. Alfaro at 

 Greytown, in Nicaragua, was an adult male ^. 



This Hawk is well figured in Gray's ' Genera of Birds,' but hardly anything has been 

 recorded of its habits. 



It is an isolated species, so far as its American congeners are concerned, but it has- a 

 strong general resemblance in its style of coloration to the African A. minullus. 



GERANOSPIZIAS, 



Ischnosceles, Strickland (nee Burmeister), Ann. & Mag. N. H. 1844, xiii. p. 400; 

 Geranospiza, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 183; Ridgvr. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xiv. p. 276. 

 Geranospizias (nom. emend.), Sundevall, Av. Tent. p. 107 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. i. p. 80. 



A peculiar genus of uncertain afiinities, but restricted to the Neotropical region, the 



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