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Besides the two examples in the British Museum, which were purchased in 1851 and are
said to have been received from Bolivia, w e have only met w ith one other example o f this species
— a mounted specimen in the Norwich Musemn, from which our figure has been prepared.
The following are the known American species o f Accipiter o f the present group, which
embraces the larger species aUied to A . pileatus and A . eooperi. Prince Bonaparte has applied
to them the barbarous name Co o p er-a stu r{\) (Eev. Zool. 1854, p. 538.)
Sect. A. Species uniformly coloured beneath, as in A. pileatus,—
1. A. PILEATUS.
F c h o p ile a lm , Temm. PI. Col. 20 5 ; M a i. B e itr. iii. p . 1 0 7 . N ü m p ilM m , Bu re ,, Svst. -Celj, ii. p. 73 : A c o ip il,,
p i k a l , , . Lawr. A u n . K . X. Lyc. vii. p, 2 5 Í . “ M ,m a o n o i . a - C a v , " in M u ..' P a r. (p artim )
B a i . S . E. B r a .il. '
2. A. BICOIOE. Ex. O n i. tab . Ixix, p, 137.
S a b . G u ian a, U p p e r Amazon, Ecuador, an d n o rthw ard s to N o rth America.
Sect. B. Species more or less mottled beneath, as in A. eooperi,—
3. A. COOPERI.
Falco cooperi. B p . Am. Orn. li. t . 1, F. stanleyi, Au d . Orn. Biogr. p. 186. A cc ip iter eooperi, Cassin, in B a ird ’s
B ird s o f N . Am. p. 16. Scl. P.Z.S . 1859, p . 3 8 9 : 1866, p . 304 : Scl. & Salv. Ib is, 1860, p. 401 -. Lawr.
A n n , Lyc. N . Y . ix. p . 134. A ca. mexicanus Sw. e t a u c tt. Americ. (?)
S a b . T em p e ra te N . America, an d so u thw a rd s to Co sta Eica.
4. A. GuxuLAcni.
A cc ip iter eooperi, Lembeye, Aves de Cuba, p. 17 : N isu s p ilea tu s, Lembeye. 1. c. p. 125. A s tu r p ilea tu s, Cab.
o t Gu n d l. J . f. O rn . 1854, E x tra -b , p. Ixxxii. Acc ip iter gundlachi, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N Y vii p ’ 252-
Gu n d l. E cp . P . N . i, p . 224.
S a b . Cuba.
5. A. GUTTATUS. Ex. O m . ta b . lix x v . p. 169.
S a h . Bolivia a n d P a rag u ay .
6. A. cn iLEXsis, Ex, O rn . tab . xxxvii. p. 73.
S a h . Chili an d Pa tag o n ia.
Sect. C. Species broadly ban-ed below, and with the breast rufous,—
7. A. PECTORALIS.
Falco pectoralis, Bp. E ev . Zool. 1S50, p. 49 0— pectoralis, Sclater, Ib is, 1861, p. 313, t. 10 e t P.Z.S , 1S6G,
p . ZOii— A s iu r p e cto ra lis, Pe lz . Orn. B ra s, p, 0—Scblegel, Mus. de P . B, Astures, p. 18.
S a b . Bra zil ; Yp an em a a n d Bo rb a , (N a tt.)