40 



Larger ; length $ 26.75, wing 14 in. ; plumage 

 above brownish blaclv, with rufescent 

 margins ; below Avhite, si^otted longitiidinally 

 with brown ; wings and tail abo\'e banded 

 alternately with browuisli-l)lack and greyish- 

 broAvn. 

 127. Megalriorchis dorke Salvad. & D"Alb., Ann. 8.E. New 

 Mus. Civ. Genov. vii., p. 85 (1875). [Yule Guinea. 

 Island.] 

 Doria's Buzzard-Hawk. 



Gen. XXIX. HETEKOSPIZIAS Sharpe (1874). 

 Nostrils round, with large tubercular process ; 

 wings reaching up to or beyond tail ; tail 

 about equal to t\vice tarsus. 



Size of Bnfeo: length 224. wing 18.3. j" 2(1, wing 

 1().5 ill. ; head and sluMiklers rufous ; jnantle 

 and scapulars ])alr slate grey Avith rufous 

 margins ; iinup and tail purplish black, tail 

 Avith a median white bar and Avhite tips ; 

 1k^1()\v rufous Avith narrow obsolete black bars 

 (111 l)rcast. 

 12S. [Icier OS piziaa merid/ioiudis (Lath.), liul. Orn., 8. America, 



1., ]).. '5(3 (1790). [Cayeime.] (Colombia to 



Uctl-winged HaAvk. S.E. Brazil, 



Paraguay and 

 Argentina). 



Gen. XXX. GEKAN()AETU8 Kaup (1844). 

 Size much larger than BiUeo ; tail proportionately 

 shorter, and Avings proportionately longer. 



Length,:^ 28. 9 31, wing 28.7, tail 11. 5 in; slaty- 

 i)liick, Avitli the shoulder grey, finely barred 

 with blackish : alxlouien and under Aviiig and 

 tail-coverts greyish- Avhite, finely barred Avith 

 blackish. 

 Il*!I. f'crdHoachi.s melanolencns (Vieill.), N. Diet. Colombia. 



dHist. Nat., xxxii., p. 57. X'S^W) {Paraguay \. to Chile and 

 Cliiliaii l^]agle. Patagonia. 



(icii. XXXI. lU'TEO Laccp. (1799). 



Cere large: nostiils ()\al A\ilh no tubercle; 

 wings inodciately long, the 3rd to 5tli quills 

 longest . th(> fii'st 3 to 5 emaiginate or notched 

 on inner A\cl)s ; tarsus short, strong, usually 

 scaled, and feathered in front for a varying 

 distance. Size usuall}^ under 24 in. 



