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bare space beneath the lower lid, the lores sparsely feathered; bill 

 without tooth or notch, but usually festooned, relatively short and 

 deep, but less so than in the Accipitrinae; nostrils not circular or 

 with a central tubercle; wings and tail variable but tail always much 

 shorter than wing; tarsus shorter than tibia, generally scutellate 

 before and behind, sometimes feathered to the toes. 



Range. — Cosmopolitan; contains 29 genera, of which 15 occur in 

 North and Middle America. 



Genus BUTEO Lacepede 



Buteo Lacepede, Tabl. Ois., 1799, 4. (Type, by tautonymy, Falco buteo 

 Linnaeus.) 



(?) Liinnaeius Bowdich, Excursions in Madeira, 1825, 56. (Type, by mono- 

 typy, the "Manta," said to be Falco buteo Linnaeus.) 



Craxirex Gould, Zool. Voy. Beagle, iii, pt. 6, 1839, 22. (Type, as designated by 

 Gray, 1840, Polyborus galapagoensis Gould.) 



Cracirex (emendation) Newton, Eucycl. Brit., ed. 9, iii, 1875, 747. 



Butaeios (not Butaetes Lesson, 1830) Moeschler, Naumannia, iii, 1853, 296 

 (ex J. F. Naumann, Naumannia, iii, 1853, 116=nomen nudum). (Type, by 

 monotypy, Buteo leucurus Naumann.) 



Butaquila Hodgson in Gray's Zool. Misc., 1844, 81. (Type, by original desig- 

 nation, B. leucocephala Uodgson=Falco ferox S. G. Gmelin.). — Gray, Cat. 

 Mam. and Birds Nepal and Thibet, 1846, 39, in synonymy only (ex Hodgson, 

 in Gray's Zool. Misc., 1844, 41 = nomen nudum). (Type, by original designa- 

 tion "Butaquila leucocephala" [ — Buteo ferox], No. 859, Hodgson's drawings 

 in British Museum.) 



Tachytriorchis Kaup, Classif. Saugeth. und Vogel, 1844, 123. (Type by mono- 

 typy, Buteo pterocles Temminck=R albicaudatus Vieillot.) 



Tachyptriorchis (emendation) Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat. Vog., 1850, pi. 95. 



Poecilopternis Kaup, Isis, 1847, 84 (bis), 330. (Type, by monotypy, Buteo 

 erythronotus King.) 



Paecilopternis (emendation) Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1849, 11. 



Limnosalis Wtjrttemberg, Naumannia, 1857, 432. (Type, by monotypy, 

 "Buteo lagopus Jard." [that is, Buteo longipes Jerdon] B. rufinus Rupp[el]= 

 Accipiier ferox Gmelin.) 



Buteola "DuBus" Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xli, 1855, 651. (Type, by mono- 

 typy, Buteo brachyurus Vieillot.) 



Onychotcs Ridgway, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1870, 142. (T3'pe, by 

 original designation, 0. gruberi Ridgway=Buteo solilarius Peale.) 



Circobuteo Jerdon, Ibis, 1871, 340 (ex "Hodgson MS"). (Type, by monotypy, 

 Buteo plumipes Hodgson.) 



Dromolestes Sundevall, Ofv. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Forh., xxxi. No. 2, 1875 (1874), 

 27. (To replace Craxirex Gould, on grounds of purism.) 



Pterolestes Sundevall, Ofv. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Forh., xxxi. No. 2, 1875 (1874), 

 27. (Type, by priority in original designation, Falco jakal Daudin.) 



Archibuteo Brehm, Isis, xxi, 1828, 1289. (Nomen nudum; see Oberholser, Auk, 

 xxxvi, 1919, 282.) 



Archibuteo Brehm, Handb. Naturg. Vog. Deutschl., 1831, 38 (earliest tenable 

 citation; see Oberholser, Auk, xxxvi, 1919, 282). (Type, A. planiceps 

 Brehm and A. alticeps Brehm = ^. lagopus Briinnich.) 



Archebutio ("emendation") Brooks, Stray Feathers, iv, 1876, 272. 

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