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PREYING BIRDS — llAl'TORES. 



Archibuteo feirugineus, ].i< htexstein. 



THE RUSTY SQUIRREL-HAWK. 



ZJiffro ycrru^/ncHS, LiCHTENSTEiN, Trans. Aciul. Burlin, 428. — Ldippus finurjineus, Frazer, 

 I'r. Zool. Soc. 1844, .36. — Arcliibiileo Jhriifjiiieiis, Gray, Gen. BirJs, 2d ed. 3 ; pi 6. 

 (Named yl. (T(7o/(S in plate.) — Cassin, P. R. Rep. Birds, IX. 34. Id. Birds of Cal. 

 and Texas, I. 159 ; pi. 2r). — IIeek.masx, V. R. Rep. X. vi. 32. — Cooper and Suck- 

 ley, XII. iii. Zool. of W. T. 149. — CorES, Pr. A. N. Se. 1866, 46. 



BiUeo Califonikus, Grayson, Hntchings's California Magazine, Mareh, 1857. 



Sp. Ch.\k. Aliuve \vj\\t niti>u,s ami dark liniwn, ])alest on rump anil wing coverts ; 

 quills ashy-V)roivn, the greater part of tbcir inner welis wliite ; tail above reddisli-wliite, 

 mottled with ashv-brown ; beneath pale yellowish- ivliite. Under parts of body white, 

 with narrow longitudinal lines and lanceolate spots of reddish-brown on the breast, and 



A ferritghieiis. 



with narrow irregidar transverse lines i>f lirnwn and black nn the abdomen ; flanks anil 

 axillary feathers bright ferrnginons : tibial and tarsal feathers the same, with narrow 

 transverse black stri[)es. 



Yiiunij. Umber-brown above, slightly mixc'd with fulvous; upper tail coverts white, 



