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eastern Mexico : Tamaulipas, Veracruz, Yucatan, Michoacdn, Oaxaca, 

 Chiapas; Cozumel Island; eastern Guatemala: Cobdn; Nicaragua: 

 Escondido River; Costa Rica: Irazu, San Antonio, La Raima, Cartago, 

 San Jose; Panama: Chiriqui, Veraguas, Gatun, Canal Zone; Col- 

 ombia; Venezuela; French Guiana: Cayenne; Ecuador: Chimbo; 

 Peru: Amable Maria, Tinta, La Merced ; Brazil : Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, 

 Cantagallo, Taquara, Para, Matto Grosso; Bolivia: Tilotilo; and north- 

 ern Argentina: Alto Parana. 

 Type locality. — Cayenne. 



Buteo hrachyurus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., iv, 1816, 477 ("Natal"; coll. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris). — Pucheran, Rev. Mag. Zool., ii, 1850, 86 (crit.). — 

 ScLATEK and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869, 600 (Peru). — Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, 215 (Calovebora, Veraguas, Panama; crit.). — 

 RiDGWAY, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xiv, 1873, 67 (Brazil) ; Bull. Nuttall 

 Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 207 (Palatka, Fla.), 210( = 212)(syn., descr.); vii, 1882,61; 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 77 (diagn. wing characters), 578 (Cozumel 

 Island, Yucatdn; descr. young male); Auk, vii, 1890, 90 (crit. as to supposed 

 identity with B. fuliginosus Sclater). — Coues, Check list North American 

 Birds, ed. 2, 1882, Addenda, p. 135, No. 882; Key North Amer. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 

 549.— DwiGHT, Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 184 (Palatka, Fla.; cor- 

 rection of data). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1886, No. 

 344; ed. 2, 1895, 133; ed. 3, 1910, 160; ed. 4, 1931, 68.— Brewster, Auk, iv, 

 1887, 160 (head of Ten Mile Creek, Brevard County, Fla., Mar. 11, 1886).— 

 Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., ii, 1889, 267 (type of Falco alhifrons 

 Maximilian, in coll. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.) ; v, 1893, 142 (Chapada, Mato 

 Grosso, sw. Brazil).— Cory, Auk, vi, 1889, 275 (Charlotte Harbor, Fla.).— 

 Scott, Auk, vi, 1889, 243 (Tarpon Springs, Chatham Bay, Caloosahatchie 

 River, etc., Fla.; presents evidence of identity of B. hrachyurus and B. fuli- 

 ginosus), 248 (s. and sw. Florida, n. at least to Tarpon Springs); ix, 1892, 212 

 (Caloosahatchie River, Fla., breeding). — Pennock, Auk, vii, 1890, 56 (St. 

 Marks, Fla., breeding; descr. eggs). — Bendire, Life Hist. North Amer. Birds, 

 i, 1892, 246, pi. 8, fig. 7.— Cherrie, Auk, ix, 1892, 318 (San Jose, Costa 

 Rica). — Fisher, Hawks and Owls United States, 1893, 83.— Richmond, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 522 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua). — Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1900, 71 (Tamaulipas; Alvarado 

 and Jalapa, Veracruz; Tehuan tepee, Oaxaca; Tonald, Chiapas; Cozumel 

 Island; Coban, Guatemala; Rio Escondido, Nicaragua; San Jos6, Irazu, 

 San Antonio, and La Palma de San Jos6, Costa Rica; Calobre and Calovebora, 

 Panama; Colombia; Venezuela; Amazonia; Brazil; Bolivia; Peru). — Thayer 

 and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Corap. Zool., xlvi, 1905, 214 (Sabana de Panama). — 

 Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 458 (Azahar de Cartago, Costa 

 Rica). — Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 393. — Phelps, Wils. Bull., xxvi, 

 1914, 98 (Big Cypress Swamp, Fla., breeding). — Chapman, Bull. Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxvi, 1917, 243 (Quindio Pass, Colombia); Iv, 1926, 231 

 (distr. ; Ecuador). — Todd and Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., xiv, 1922, 

 151 (Bonda and Palenque, Santa Marta, Colombia). — Hallinan, Auk, 

 xli, 1924, 311 (Gatun, Panama; food). — Bailey, Birds Florida, 1925, 

 70, pi. 37 (fig.; distr.; Florida).— Peters, Cheek-list Birds of World, i, 

 1931, 239.— Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxii, 1932, 314 (Perm6, 

 Panama); Ixxviii, 1935, 299 (scattered records throughout Panama). — 

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