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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



FAMILY 



FALCONID^E. 



Subfamily, A C C I P I T R I N JE . 



Genus: ACCIPITER. Briss. 

 ACCIPITER: BRISSON, ORN., I. f. 310, 1760. 



ACCIPITER FRINGILLOIDES. Vigors. 



Accipiter fringilloidcs. Vig., " Zool. Journ., III. p. 434 (1S28)." — 

 Scl. and Salv., Norn. Ay. Neotr., p. 120 (1873). — Sharpe, Cat. 

 Bds. Brit. Mus., I. p. 135 (1874). 



Nisus fringilloidcs. D'Orbigny, " Ramon de la Sagra, N. H. Cuba 

 Ois., p. 18 (1839)." 



Nisus fuscus. Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI. p. 154 (-1881). 



Sp. Char., Female. — Resembles Accipiter fusczis, but plumage 

 much paler; above, brown, the concealed portions of the feathers 

 showing much white ; concealed feathers of the back regularly 

 marked with broad spots of white; tail, pale brown, showing five 

 somewhat indistinct bands of darker brown ; under surface of tail, 

 dull white, regularly banded with brown ; breast and belly, white, 

 the shafts of the feathers dark brown, showing hair-like lines over 

 the whole surface: these lines are in many cases bordered with pale 

 brown, giving the appearance of arrow-shaped markings; under tail 

 coverts, white; quills, brown, barred with white on the inner webs; 

 under surface of wings, white, barred with brown. 



Length 11.50; wing 7; tail 5.50; tarsus 1.75. 



