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Show 154 Cymindi* cayentieneis CUVIEK, Reg. An. i, 1817, 319; ih. ed. 2, 331.- VIG. Zool. Jonrn. i, 182-, 323, 337.- STEPHENS, Zool. xiii, pt. 2,18-, 18.- LESSON, Man. i, 1828, 91; Tr. Orn. 1831, 55, pi. 13, fig. 2.- LAFRESX. Mag. Zool. pi. 22.- KAUP, Class. Saug. u. V5g. 1844, 123.- GRAY, Gen. B. 1845, 25; Hand List, i, 1869, 27.- BONAP. Consp. Av. i, 1850, 20.- V. D. HOEV. Handb. Dierk. 1855, 809.- STRICKL. Orn. Syn. i, 1855,128.- BUKM. Th. Bras, ii, 1656,107.- LAWR. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1861, p. - ( New Granada); id. 1868, 134 ( Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica).- SCHLEG. MUS. Pays- Bas, Pernes, 1862, 9; Rev. Ace. 1873, 136.- LEOT. Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 34.- SCLATER, P. Z. S. 1868, m ( Venezuela).- SCL. < fc SALV. P. Z. S. 1870, 215 ( Veragna); ib. 838, ( coast , Honduras); Norn. Neotr. 1873, 122.- FINSCH, P. Z. 8. 1870, p. - ( Trinidad).- PELZ. Orn. Bras. 1871, 5, 398.- RIDGW. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. 1873,53. Attar cayenneims SPIX, AV. Bras, i, 1824, pi. 8c. Buteo cayennensii LESS. Man. Orn. i, 1828, 103. Odontriorchis cayennensis KAUP, Class. Saug. u. Vog. 1844, 124; Contr. Orn. 1850,7i Leptodon cayennenm SHARPE, Cat. Ace. B. M. 1874, 333. Asturiua cyanopus VIEILL. Enc. M< Sth. iii, 1823, 1261. Falco palUatus MAX. in Temm. PI. Col. i, 1823, pi. 204 ( juv.); Beitr. iii, 1830, 148. Buteo palUatus LESS. Man. Orn. i, 1828, 103. Cymindia butconides LESS. Tr. Orn. 1831, 55. Cayenne Falcon LATH. Syn. i, 1781, 59. Petit Autour de Cayenne BUFF. PI. Enl. i, 473. Hob.- Tropical America, on the Atlantic side, from Brazil to Mirador, Mexico. West Indies f ( SHARPE). Wing, 11.25- 13. C0; tail, 9.70- 10.50; culmen, 0.80- 1.05; tarsus, 1.40- 1.75; middle toe, 1.50- 1.75. Fourth, fifth, or sixth quill longest; first shorter than the ninth. Lower parts usually entirely white, but sometimes with narrow dusky streaks on the breast and sides, and occasionally ( in nie-lanistic young birds) with broad stripes or longitudinal spots ot blackish over entire lower surface. Above plain plumbeous, plumbeous- black, brownish- black or blackish- brown ( the latter color usually in the younger stage and variegated with ochraceous,) the head usually lighter ( generally pale ash- gray or pure white), but sometimes ( in those individuals which are heavily striped beneath) almost wholly black. Tail, broadly banded with black and gray or black and brown. Adult:- Above very dark bluish- plumbeous/ approachiug black anteriorly, with a faint reflection of bottle- green in certain lights; remiges indistinctly banded with lighter plumbeous. Head andneck plain fine bluish- plumbeous or pearl- gray, darker on the pileura and fading into white on the throat. Beneath entirely immaculate pure white. Tail deep black, narrowly tipped with white, and crossed by three rather narrow bands of bluish- gray. Young.- Light phase:- Above dusky brown, approaching black anteriorly, the remiges indistinctly banded with dusky. Head and neck usually almost wholly pure white, the pilenm more or less spotted with blackish- brown. Lower parts white. Tail brownisb- gray or brownish- white, crossed by three bands of black.* Dark pMse ( Melanisticf):- Upper parts as iu the last, but lower parts striped more or less broadly with blackish, and the head and neck' ( except the throat) uniform blackish like the back. A young specimen from Panama in Mr. Lawrence's collection, agreeing with stage III of the above diagnosis, calls to mind Temminck's PI. Col. 270; but it is not so dark beneath as the plate referred to, has no rufous on the nape, and has white streaks on the throat. • Another phase ( younger?) is similar, but the lesser wing- coverts are much mixed with white, and all the feathers of the upper parts are tipped with pale buff or fulvous. Tue black bands of the tail only about half as wide as the interspaces, and the head pure white, with ouly a few touches of dusky on the occiput. |