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Washington, xii, 1898, 132 (Santa Marta, Colombia). — Hartert, Nov. Zool., 

 V, 1898, 502 (Paramba, nw. Ecuador, 3,500 ft.). — Lantz, Trans. Kansas 

 Acad. Sci., 1896-97 (1899), 255 (Kansas; rare summer res. in e. Kansas). — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 257.— Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xiii, 

 1900, 130 (Bonda, etc., Santa Marta, Colombia, Nov.-Mar.) ; Auk, xvii, 

 1900, 364 (Bonda, Valparaiso, and Minca, Santa Marta, Colombia, Nov.- 

 Mar.).— Beyer, Proc. Louisiana Soc. Nat. Hist, for 1897-99 (1900), 99 

 (Louisiana, breeding). — Nash, Check List Birds Ontario, 1900, 29 (Ontario; 

 common summer res.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 

 1900, 69 (Mexican and Central American Iocs.; Colombia; Ecuador; Vene- 

 zuela; upper Amazon). — Fleming, Auk, xviii, 1901, 37 (Parry Sound and 

 Musoke, n. Ontario, breeding). — Goodfellow, Ibis, 1902, 221 (Archidona 

 and Guacamoyo, e. Ecuador; habits). — Iherinq and Ihering, Av. Brazil, 

 1907, 90 (Rio Javari and upper Amazon). — Bailey, Proc. Iowa Acad. Sci., 

 xix, 1912, 192 (melanism), 195 (remarkable flight). — Pindar, Wils. Bull., 

 xxxvii, 1925, 85 (status, Fulton County, Ky). — Groebbels, Der Vogel, i, 

 1932, 274 (food habits), 379, in text (feeding the young), 621 (body weight); 

 ii, 1937, 23, in text (right ovary), 171 (data on breeding biology), 204, in text 

 (lines nest with leaves), 236, in text (egg laying). 



Buteo ladssinus (typ. error) Zeled6n, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 126 

 (Jimenez, Costa Rica). 



(?) Buteo sylvanicus Beristain and Laurencio, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "An- 

 tonio Alzate," vii, 1894, 226 (Mexico; Veracruz and Tehuantepec). 



Asturina plagiata plagiata, Savage, Iowa Orn., i, 1895, 89 (Hillsboro, Iowa). — 

 Bennitt, Univ. Missouri Stud., vii, No. 3, 1932, 23, footnote (correction). — 

 DuMoNT, Univ. Iowa Stud. Nat. Hist., xv, 1934, 159 (spec, reidentified as 

 young broad-winged hawk). 



Asturina plagiata Anderson, Proc. Davenport Acad. Sci., xi, 1907, 251 (Van 

 Buren County, Iowa). — Bailey, Iowa Geol. Surv. Bull. 6, 1918, 132. 



Buteo platypterus iowensis Bailey, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 73 (Eagle Lake, Hancock 

 County, Iowa; coll. Coe College). — Oberholser, Auk, xxxiv, 1917, 207;xxxv, 

 1918, 478 (crit.). 



BUTEO PLATYPTERUS CUBANENSIS Burna 



Cuban Broad-Winged Hawk 



Adult (sexes alike). — Similar to the immature plumage of the 

 nominate race, that is, the dark marks on the breast are streaks, not 

 true bars. 



Juvenal (sexes alike) . — Indistinguishable from those of the nominate 

 form. 



Adult male. — Wing 250-256; tail 150-156.6; culmen from cere 

 19.5-19.7; tarsus 65; middle toe without claw 33.5-37.5 mm. (2 

 specimens) . 



Adult female. —Wing 254-266 (261); tail 160.1-164 (161.3); culmen 

 from cere 19.5-21.3 (20.2) ; tarsus 59.5-61.5 (60.7) ; middle toe without 

 claw 30.2-32.5 (31.5 mm.) (3 specimens). 



Range. — Resident in Cuba and the Isle of Pines; occasional (?) 

 in Hispaniola, whence the species has been recorded (but no adult 

 specimens are available for study from Hispaniola). The identifica- 



