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scapulars, which are more uniformly dark fuscous; the forehead with 

 much whitish in the great majority of specimens but not in all; upper 

 wing coverts and secondaries hair brown barred more or less distinctly 

 and broadly sub terminally banded with fuscous, and narrowly tipped 

 with pale hair bro^^^l with sometimes some whitish; the inner webs of 

 the secondaries paling to white internally; the tertials washed with 

 cinnamon-brown and with much white in the majority (but not all) 

 of the specimens; the two outermost primaries very broadly tipped 



Figure 18. — BuUo (Buteo) jamaicensis. 



with fuscous-black and %^ith the outer webs of this color, the inner 

 webs whitish, unbarred for their basal half or more; other primaries 

 similar except that the dark areas become a little paler and both the 

 dark and the white areas are barred with fuscous-black; upper back 

 dark fuscous to fuscous-black; lower back and rump somewhat paler, 

 sometimes (rarely) almost hair brown washed with rufescent; upper 

 tail coverts variable, whitish washed with buff and cinnamoneous to 

 nearly solid cinnamon and more or less barred with argus brown; 

 rectrices bright hazel to Brussels brown narrowly tipped with whitish 



