489 
Mr. B. B. Sharpe’s Catalogue of Accipitres. 
In the P. Z. S. for 1870, at p. 554, Dr. Finsch describes a 
specimen from Trinidad with two basal bands, which he refers 
to U. gundlachi; but, judging from the description there given, 
I venture to doubt the correctness of this identification, and 
to think that, if the Cuban race be distinct, the Trinidad bird 
is referable to XJ. anthracina rather than to U. gundlachi. 
The collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman contains a 
curious pale-coloured Buzzard, a male bird, obtained at Chepo, 
on the Isthmus of Panama, which I believe to be an imma¬ 
ture specimen of U. anthracina in very abnormal plumage; 
by the kindness of its possessors I am able to give the follow¬ 
ing particulars respecting this interesting specimen : the 
wing measures 13*1 inches from the carpal joint to the tip 
of the primaries, the tarsus 3T, the middle toe s. u. 1*8. In 
connexion with these measurements, and in support of my 
view of the bird being really an aberrant example of U. an¬ 
thracina, I may remark that Mr. Bidgway ( f Studies of 
American Falconidse/ p. 170) gives the following dimensions 
as the result of an examination of forty-eight individuals of 
that species:—“wing 13T5 to 15B0, tarsus 3 - 00 to 3*50, 
middle toe P60 to 1*80.” 
The specimen now under consideration has evidently been 
killed whilst moulting; and the old feathers, wherever they 
remain, are considerably paler than those which have been 
newly assumed, this being no doubt the result of their being 
worn and faded; the feathers on the upper portion of the 
head and on the back of the neck are wood-brown, edged with 
fulvous, this edging being most conspicuous above the ear* 
coverts, which are themselves buff, with dark brown tips ; 
the interscapulary feathers are some of them a pale sandy 
colour, with a dark shaft-mark, on each side of which is an 
irregular rufous mark running from the base of the shaft and 
at an acute angle with it, to the edge of the web; these ap¬ 
pear to be the older feathers; the newer are of a wood-brown 
of varying intensity, and edged with rufous; the scapulars 
and wing-coverts are of a pale dove-colour, irregularly barred 
and edged with rufous; the tertials are of similar colour, and 
transversely barred with rufous on the inner webs, the outer 
