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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



slaty blue, but specimens are rarely met with. The female resembles 

 the immature male, as above described. 



Length 11; wing 7.50; tail 5; tarsus 1.20. 



A single specimen of this Hawk was killed at Puerto Plata. 

 Its measurements are as follows: — 



No. Date. Sex. Mus. Locality. Length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



FALCO SPARVERIUS ISABELLINUS (L.). Swain. 



Falco isabcllinus. Swain., An. Menag., p. 281 (1S38). 



Tinnunculus sparverius var. isabcllinus. Ridg., P. A. N. S. Phila., 



Dec, p. 149 (1S70); Bd., Bwr. and Ridgw., N. Am. Bds., III. 



p. 171 (1874). 



Tinnunculus dominiccusis "(not of GmeL). Strickl., Orn. Syn., I. 

 100 (1855)." 



Falco dominiccusis. Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XI. p. 90 

 (1866). 



Tinnunculus sparverius var.? Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI. 

 p. 154 (1881). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Top of head, slate color; forehead, whitish; 

 throat, white; a maxillary and auricular black stripe; breast, rufous; 

 back, dark rufous brown ; tail, rufous brown, tipped with white, and 

 having a subtcrminal band of black; outer web of outer tail-feather, 

 white; wing coverts, slate color; abdomen and belly, white; a patch 

 of black on the side of the neck. 



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