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Asturina plagiata plagiata Schlegel. Mexican Goshawk. [346.] 



Asturina plagiata Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, II, Asturinse, 1862, 1. 

 (Vera Cruz au Mexique =City of Vera Cruz, Mexico.) 



Range. — Southern Arizona, southern New Mexico, and Lower Rio Grande 

 Valley south to Guatemala. Winters south of the United States. Accidental 

 in southern Illinois. [An allied race occurs from southern Guatemala to Costa 

 Rica.] 



Genus URUBITINGA Lafresnaye. 



Urubitinga Lafresnaye, Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat., II, 1843, 786. Type, by 

 tautonymy, L'Aigle Autour, Urubitinga de Cuvier =Falco urubitinga 

 Gmelin. 



Urubitinga anthracina anthracina (Lichtenstein). Mexican Black Hawk. 



[345.] 



Falco anthracinus Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. . . . Vogel . . . Mexico, 

 etc., 1830, 3. (Mexico.) 



Range. — ^Lower Austral Zone in southern Arizona and Texas (Lower Rio 

 Grande Valley) south through Mexico and Central America to Peru and 

 British Guiana. 



Genus AQUILA Brisson. 



Aquila Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 28, 419. Type, by tautonymy, Aquila 

 Brisson = Falco chrysaetos Linnaeus. 



Aquila chrysaetos canadensis (Linnaeus). Golden Eagle. [349.] 



Falco canadensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 88. Based on 

 The White-Tailed Eagle Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, I, 1. (in Canada 

 = Hudson Bay.) 



Range. — Breeds in mountainous regions from northern Alaska, northwestern 

 Mackenzie, and perhaps casually in the Canadian provinces east of the Rocky 

 Mountains south to northern Lower California, central Mexico, western Texas, 

 Oklahoma, and formerly to North Carolina. Probably no longer breeds in the 

 United States east of the Mississippi except possibly in North Carolina and 

 eastern Tennessee. In winter south casually to Louisiana, Alabama, northern 

 Florida, and southern Texas. [Closely allied races occur in the Eastern Hemi- 

 sphere.] 



Genus HALIAEETUS Savigny. 



Haliapetus Savigny, Descr. de I'Egypte, I, 1809, 68, 85. Type, by 

 monotypy, Haliae^tus nisus Savigny = Falco albicilla Linnaeus. 



