66 FALCONID#, 
cauda grisea vix fulvo tincta, et fusco irregulariter variegata, fascia subterminali nigra. Long. tota 
circa 20-0, ale 15:0, caudee 8°7, tarsi 3-5. (Descr. exempl. typ. ex Louisiana. Mus. Brit.) 
Juv. Fuliginoso-niger, maculis longitudinalibus ovatis albidis vel fulvescentibus in pogonio utroque variegatus ; 
remigibus brunneis, nigricanti-brunneo regulariter transfasciatis et terminatis ; cauda griseo-brunnea, 
albido terminata, tectricibus nigro 10-fasciatis ; loris conspicue albis; facie laterali fere concolore, saturate 
brunnea ; corpore subtus nigricanti-brunneo, plumis basin versus albis aut albo transfasciatis ; tibiis albo 
macnlatim fasciatis; subcaudalibus albis, late brunneo transfasciatis. (Hxempl. ¢ juv. ex Dakota 
septentrionali. Mus. Brit.) 
Hab. Norrn America, Gulf States and Mississippi Valley 4, Texas®.—Mexico, Vera 
Cruz (Sallé®), Orizaba (Botteri*), Oaxaca (Boucard *). 
From the scanty material at our disposal, we are unable to say much respecting the 
various plumages through which this Buzzard passes; but, from an examination of the 
specimens before us, we are induced to consider it a very well-marked species. ‘The 
black plumage and curiously mottled tail of the adult have no parallel in B. borealis 
and the allied forms. 
This species appears to be resident in the Gulf States of North America, as far east 
as Georgia and Florida and the lower Mississippi Valley, and casual specimens have 
been found in Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, and Pennsylvania ; there is an immature example 
of it from North Dakota in the British Museum. With regard to its distribution 
in Central America, we are of opinion that the majority of specimens referred to 
B. harlani have been wrongly identified, and this has proved to be the case in all 
those which have come under our notice. Gurney? has described a Buzzard from 
Vera Cruz, in the Norwich Museum, which must certainly be an immature example of 
B. harlani; but it is probable that the bird obtained by Botteri at Orizaba? was really 
B. calurus, to which we think all our Guatemalan specimens should be referred. 
In habits B. harlani much resembles the Red-tailed Buzzards, but is described as 
being very shy and wary, and its call-note is rather more drawn out. It affects the 
wild and unfrequented districts of Florida, where Dr. W. L. Ralph says that it breeds, 
but at present the nest and eggs have not been identified. 
8. Buteo lineatus. 
Barred-breasted Buzzard, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 56°. 
Falco lineatus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 268°. 
Buteo lineatus, Scl. P. Z.S. 1857, p. 211°; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. i. p. 191°; Bendire, 
Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds, i. p. 219, t. 7. ff. 1-5°; Fisher, Bull. U. 8. Dep. Agr. no. 8, 
p- 62, t. 8°; A. O. U. Check-l. N. Amer. Birds, p. 1381”. 
Buteo elegans, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1855, p. 281°; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1869, p. 364°. 
¢. Supra brunneus, rufo tinctus, pileo pallidiore brunneo rufo, plumis striolatim rufo marginatis ; scapula- 
ribus alisque, dorso imo, uropygio et supracaudalibus magis cinerascenti-brunneis, albo fasciatim notatis 
vel apicatis; tectricibus alarum minimis ferrugineis, plagam magnam exhibentibus; remigibus extus 
conspicue albo fasciatis; rectricibus nigricantibus, albo terminatis et preterea fasciis quinque albis 
transnotatis ; loris albicantibus; facie laterali albida, rufo lavata et anguste brunneo lineata, genis 
fuscioribus, fasciam mystacalem formantibus; gutture albido, rhachidibus plumarum fuscis; gastreo 
