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NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



white, without any natural coloring. The inner coating of the shell is sea- 

 green, seeming to coulirni the ajiparently close connection hetueen tlie 

 genera of Astur and Asturina. 



Mr. G. C. Taylor met what he presumed to he this Hawk in great ahun- 

 dauce at Comayagua, Honduras, in January. He saw a [lair making their 

 nest on the top of a lofty cottou-tree. 



Captain Bendire found this species not uncommon and breeding in the 

 vicinity of Tucson, in Arizona. He found two nests, one of which was 

 taken June G, tlie other a few days later. They were very sliglitly built 

 of sticks and strips of bark, and placed in low trees on tlie banks of Ihdedo 

 Creek. Tlie nest contained two eggs. These are of a rounded oval shape, 

 are quite tapering at one end and rounded at the other. They are of a uni- 

 form bluish-white color and unspotted, and measure 2.00 inches in length 

 by 1.60 inches in breadth. 



Ge.nls ANTENOR, Ridgway. 



Jnicnnr,'Rvnr,v,-.\.Y. (Type, Foko hnrrisi, AcD.) 

 Cruxircx, AcTHOK.s, not of Goci.d.' 



Gln". Cn.iR. Similar to Asturina, bat form heavier, tlie bill and witrgs more elonc:ateil, 

 the tail slightly rounded, and the lores almost naked. Bill very much as in Asturina, but 



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43559, 1 





Parabrtteo ftarrisi. 



42550,?. 



more elongated, the top of the cere longer in proportion to the cnlnicn, and the eoniniis- 

 sural lobe more anterior; the upper and lower outlines more nearly parallel. No.stril 



1 The t\-pe of Craxircx, Gould (Voyage of Beagle, 1S3S, 22), is the Ihitco galapagocnsis, 

 Gould, a spooies strictly coiigeneiic with Buteo lorcalis. * 



