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Show 104 Other specimens examined.- In nius. Acad. Nat. Sci. r Philadelphia, 18; American Mns., New York, 3; Boston Soc. N. H., 4 ; Mns. Couip. Zool., Cambridge, 3; G. N. Lawrence, 9; W. S. Brewer, 1; L. Jouy, 1; C. E. Aiken, 1; S. F. Baird, 6; R. Ridgway, 7. Total number of specimens examined, 128. Collectors' notes on color of eyes, etc., including fresh measurements ( National Museum gptei-mens). No. 4352: length, 18.00; extent, 31.00. No. 5163: length, 17.00; extent, 29.25; iris light yellow. No. 5164: length, 1; extent, 30.50; iris light yellow. No. 5578: length, 18.25; extent, 25.00. No. 5579: length, 15.00; extent, 24.00. No. 5846: length, 19.00; extent, 30.00. No. 11791: length, 15.00; extent, 23.00. No. 12024: length, 17,00; extent, 29.00. No. 17206: length, 16.00; extent, 27.00. No. 17207: length, 17.00; extent, 29.00. No. 17208: length, 17.00; extent, 29.00.- No. 17209: length, 16.00; extent, 28.20. • No. 46621: length, 17.00; extent, 30.50; bill pile blue at base, growing gradnally black at end; cere greenish- yellow; iris bright orange- red; tarsi and to^ s leiuoii- yeliow. No. 46G22: length, 19.00; extent, 33.50. NISUS GUNDLACHI. A stur cooperi LEMBEYK, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850,17.- CABANIS, Journ. fur Orn Nov. 1854,-. Accipiter cooperii BREWER, Pr. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1860, p.-. Xisuspifeatus LEMB. AV. Cuba, Supplement, p. 125. Accipiter pileatus BREWER, Pr. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. I860, p.-. Accipiter mexicanus BREWER, Pr. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1860, p.-. Accipiter gundlachi LAWRENCE, Ann. Lye. N. Y. Mav, 1860, 252.- GUNDLACH, Report. 18G3,224.- SCL. & SALVIX, Exotic Orn. xi, 1869,170: Nom. Neotr. 1873, p. 120.- GRAY, Hand List, i, 1869, 33, No. 319.- SHARPE, Cat. Ace. Brit. Mus. 1874,137 ( foot- note). Xisus cooperi var. gundlachi RIDGWAY, B. B. & R. Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 223 Sab.- Cuba ( Nat. Mus.). Diagnosis.- Adult male:-" Front, crown, and occiput sooty black; upper plumage dull bluish- ash, the feathers of the back with brownish margins; tail of the same color as the back, partly tinged with dnll rufous, and crossed with four brown bars, three of which are imperfect, being but little developed on the outer webs; the outer bar, however, crosses both webs and is narrowly tipped with white. Quill feathers brown, having their shafts, as are also those of the tail feathers, reddish- brown ; cheeks dusky ash; space forward of the eye pale dull rufous; a line of whitish feathers runs along the edge of the crown and extends over the eye; throat ashy- white, tinged with rufous; sides of the neck, upper part of the breast, and a band running to the hind-neck grayish- ash; lower portion of the breast and upper part of the abdomen rufous, the feathers very narrowly edged with dull white; lower part of the abdomen of a pale rufous, with transverse bars of dull white. Long feathers of the sides grayish- ash tinged with rufous and destitute of bars or spots; sides, just above the junction of the tail, plain rufous; thighs of a bright but rather pale rufous, the feathers having darker submargiual ends, terminating with very narrow edgings of dull white; under wing- coverts and axillars bright rufous barred with white. The feathers of the throat, breast, and sides have their shafts dark brown; upper tail coverts grayish ash, lower white; bill horn- color, with a whitish mark on the tooth and also on the edge of the lower mandible near its base; legs greenish- yellow."* " Length about 18 inches; wiug from flexure 9 | ; tail 1%; tarsus 2J."- ( Lawrence, I. c.) * Dr. Gundlach ( Lawrence, I. c. p. 7) adds :- Cere and cheeks ( i. e. orbits t ) greenish-yellow ; feet pale yellow with a greeuish hue ; iris red ; length 0.457 ; extent 0.807. |
