POLTBOEUS. 



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tinged -with orange-rufotts or salmon-color. Male: 

 "Wing 6.80-7.30, tail 4.90-5.20. cnlmen .46-.51. tarvis 

 1.30-1.45. middle toe .90. Female: "Winer 7.00-7.60 

 tail 4.70-5.60. cnlmen .50-.52, tarsus 1.40. middle toe 

 .91. _HaA. Cuba and Haiti. 



F. dominicensis Gjcel. Haitien Sparrow Hawk. 1 

 d 2 . Back rufous only in the female and youne male, plumbeous or 

 dark bluish gray in adult male; breast, etc., deep rusty or 

 rufous : forehead and ear-coverts dusky. 



Adult male: Above, except tail, entirely dark plumbeocs. or 

 slate-gray, or else chiefly of this color; a blackish collar 

 across hind-neck : breast and sides deep rufous, sometimes 

 inclining to chestnut ; throat grayish white, or light gray- 

 ish ; inner webs of quills grayish, transversely clouded or 

 mottled with dusky. Young male: .Similar to adult, but 

 back and scapulars mixed with more or less of rufous. 

 rusty of breast paler, etc. Adult female : Lo-s-er parts 

 deep rusty ; inner webs of quills rusty, marked with about 

 twelve transverse bars or narrow spots of duskv. JTjU : 

 Wing 6.90-7.10. tail 4.60-5.10, culmen .50, tarsus 1.45-1.43. 

 middle toe .90. Female: Wine 7.00-7.50. tail 5. "0-5. 15. 

 culmen .50, tarsus 1.35-1.40, middle toe .83-.90. Hob. 

 Cuba and Haiti ; accidental or casual in southern Florida. 

 361. F. sparverioides Tig. Cuban Sparrow Hawk. 



Gests POLYBORUS Yieduww. (Page 224 r pi. LXYII. : fig. 2.) 



Species. 



Commos Characters. — Tail dull white, or pale Isabella-color, narrowly barred 

 with grayish or dusky, and crossed at end by a broad band of dark brown or black- 

 ish. Adult : Whole top of head, together with greater portion of body and wines, 

 blackish, or dark brown : cheeks, neck, chest, and tail-coverts dull white or pale 

 isabella-color ; nape, back, and breast f sometimes win^-coverts and belly also; 

 barred with whitish (or pale isabella-color) and dusky. Young: Plumage striped 

 with dull brownish and dull whitish or dull bufly, the pilenm plain dull brownish; 

 tail as in adult. 



a 1 . Bump and upper tail-coverts, in adult, white (with or withont bars); tail 



white, the narrow bars grayish, the terminal dark band 2.00, or more, 



wide. 



b 1 . Scapulars, breast, belly, and middle wing-coverts barred with blackish and 



whitish in adult, striped in young; tail-coverts barred; wing 16.00-17.70. 



1 F*Uo domimieemsi* Girei-, 5. 3f. i. ITii, 255. 



