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heavily, the lateral ones least, so marked, and the middle ones often, 

 the lateral ones less frequently, washed with cinnamon-rufous; tail 

 white on basal two-thirds and narrowly, but sharply, tipped with white; 

 subterminal portion (nearly one-third of feather) pale mottled mouse 

 gray or grayish hair brown, sometimes tinged with Saccardo's umber 



Figure 19. — Buteo {Butaetes) lagopus. 



or cinnamomeous, with a broad zone of black or fuscous-black next to 

 the terminal white, and anterior to this three narrow and irregular 

 bands of the same; chin and throat white, sometimes lightly washed 

 with buff, streaked narrowly with fuscous; breast similar but usually 

 more tawny in its wash and with the fuscous streaks broadened out 

 into very large terminal V-shaped spots on the individual feathers, 



