352 BUTEO BOREALIS, RED-TAILED BUZZARD 



BUTEO HARLANI, -'Aiul." 



Harlan's Buzzard; Black Warrior. 



FaJco harJani, AvD., Oni. Biog. i, 1831, 441; v, 1839, 380; pi. 86.— Nutt., Man. i, 1832, 



10.5.— BiJEW., ed Wils. 684. 

 Buteoharhuii, AvD., Svn. 1839, 6; B. Am. i, 1840, pi. 8.— Bp., Consp. List, 1838, 3i— 



DeKay, N. Y. Zool. ii, 1844, 11.— Strickl., Orn. Syu. 185.=^, 30.— Lawr., Ann. 



Lye. V, 220.— Cass., 111. lf:^54, 101 ; B. N. A. 1858, 24.— Cottf.s, Pr. Plnla. Acad. 



1866, 45.— RiDGW.. ibid. 1870, 142.— Coor., B. Cal. i, 1870, 473.-C'ouES, Key. 187f?, 



216.— Snow, B. Kans. 1873, — , aud Ani. Nat. vii, 1873, 172.— B. B. &, rVN. A. 



B. ill, 1874, 292. (Not of Bryant.) (Very likely not of Aiidubon.) 



Hah. — " Louisiana." " New Mexico." " California." " Kansas." 



I regard the claims of tbis species to validity as not yet established. 

 Both Gray and Bonaparte quote it as a synonym of B. boreaUs, and it 

 appears not improbable that it represents the complete melanism of 

 that species, corresponding with the '■'■ insignatus''^ style of swainsoni. 

 A further element of doubt is found in the lact that different authors 

 have used the name for different species. Thus Dr. Bryant's '■'■ liarlani''^ 

 is certainly sicalnsoni, while the " harlani " of some of the older New 

 England authors is almost as certainly the black state of Archibuteo 

 lagopiis. 



The claim of the species to be embraced in the present work rests 

 upon the capture of a specimen near Lawrence/ Kansas. On being 

 transmitted to the Smithsonian, it was pronounced by Prof. Baird and 

 Mr. Eidgway to be harlmii, as understood by them. I have examined 

 this and some other specimens supposed to represent Audubon's bird, 

 and can see all the later ascribed characters, which cause me to 

 suspend judgment for the present, and let the bird stand on its own 

 merits, as the differences from any known style of boreaUs are too great 

 to be reconciled. The Buteo coo perl o&ers much the same case; addi- 

 tional specimens, only lately received, are just like the original type, 

 and easily recognized. But Audubon's bird may he = caJurus. 



BUTEO BOREALIS, (Gm.) Yieill. 



Red-tailed Buzzard; Ren Hawk. 



a. boreaUs. 



Falco horealis, Gm., Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 266.— Lath., Ind. Orn. i, 1790, 25.— Daud , Tr. Orn. 

 ii, 1800, 157.— 8haw, Gen. Zool. vii, 112. — Wils., Aui. Oni. vi, 1812,75, pi. 52, f. 1.— 

 Sabine, Frankl. Journ. 670.— Bp., Svn. 1828, 32; Isis, 1832, 1138.— Wagl., Isis. 

 1831, 517.— Nutt., Man. i, 1832, 102.— Aud., Orn. Biog. i, 1832, 265 ; v, 378; pi. 51. 



Bufeo horealis, Virill., Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nat. iv, 1816, 478; Enc. Metb. iii, 1222. — 

 Sw. & Rich., F. B. A. ii, 1831, 50.— Vig., Zool. Jonrn. i, 340; Beech. Voy. 15.— 

 Stepii., Gen. Zool. xiii, pt. ii, 47. — Less., Tr. Orn. 79.— Jajies., ed. Wils. i, 82, 

 84.— Jard., ed. Wils. ii, 280, 282.— Brew., ed. Wils. 450, 684.— Bp., List, 1838, 

 3; Cousp. i, 1850, 19.— Aud., Syn. 1839, 6; B. A. i, 1840, 32, pi. 7.— Gosse, B. 

 Jam. 1847, U. pi. 2.— Lemb., Av. Cub:e, 18.30, 18, pi. ].— Cas.s., 111. 1854, 97; Pr. 



A. N. S. P^55, 279.— WoODii., Sitgr. Rep. 1853, 59 (includes western).— PuCHER., 

 Rev. Zool. 1850, 214.— Brew., N. A. Ool. 1857, 21.— Gamb., J. A. N. S. i, 26.— 

 DeKay, N. Y. Zool. ii, 9, pi. 8, fig. 17.— Peab., Rep. Orn. Mass.— Tno:MPS., Nat. 

 Hist. Vermont, App. 63.— Peale, U. S. Exi»1. Exped. 1848, 62.— Kaup, Mus. 

 Senck. 1845, 261.— Cass., B. N. A. 18.58, 25.— Maxim., .J. f. O. vi, 18.58, 17.— Bd., 

 Mex. Bound. Surv. ii, 1859, pt. ii. Birds, p. 3.— Blak., Ibis, iii, 1861, 318.— 

 Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. viii, 1861, 109.— Hayd , Rep. 1862, 152.— Wood, Am. 

 Nat. iii, 1869, 393.— Alt.en, Mem. Bost. «"c- 1868, 499; Bull. M. C. Z. ii, 1871, 

 322 (exel. syn. partim); iii, 1872, 180.— RiDGW., Pr. Phila. Acad. 1870, 142.— 



B. B. it R., N. A. B. iii, 1874, 282.— Snow, B. Kans. 1873.— Coues, Key, 1872, 216. 

 Astur horealis, Cuv., R. A. 2d ed. i, 332.— Sw., Classif. B. ii, 1837, 215 {'' Aster"). 



