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Key to the Xatural Ghoups and Species (Adflts). 



A. Tail usually brown, sometiines washed with 

 nifoiis, with a varying uuinber of transverse 

 bar.s ; generally from Gto 12. often indistinct . 



General plumage sooty-black, shaded witii 

 b^o^vn ; tail greyish-broMii with 12 or l.'i 

 blackish bars. 

 ]3(». B^iteo galapagensis (Gowld). V.Z.>^.. 1837. ]). H (!a,la]mgos Is. 

 [Galapagos Is.] 

 Galapagos Buzzard. 



Aberrant species ; size small ; wingQ 10.7.3 in., 

 very short and rounded ; inner webs of first 4 

 primaries emarginate ; tips of primaries 

 reaching to about middle of tail ; tail with 8' 

 or 9 darker bars ; plumage l)laekish-broAvii 

 (dark phase) or brown above and buflf below 

 and on head (light phase). 



131. Buteo solitarius Peale, Zool. U.S. Expl. Hawaiian 

 Exped. Birds, p. 62 (1848). [Karakaloa Bai/, Arcliipdaii-o 

 Hawaii.] 



Solitary Buzzard. 



Size small ; length ^ 18.50, wing 11.8 in.; 

 above pale brown ; tail with G or 7 bands of 

 darker broA\ai ; below Avhite, throat narrowly 

 and breast broadly streaked with pale bro^ni ; 

 belly and thighs uniform pale brown. 



132. Buteo hrachypterus K-a,ri\.. Faun. Madag.p. 1. Madagascar. 

 (1861). [ Madagascar . \ 



Short -winged Buzzard. 



Size large, length $, 24.5 ; wing 19 in. ; head 

 and neck white, with broad streaks of pale 

 brown ; above dull broAvn ; tail with indistinct 

 darker cross-bars, the base and inner webs 

 white ; beloAv Avhite, barred on throat and 

 streaked on breast Avith dark broAni ; flanks 

 dark broAATi. 



133. Buteo hemilasius Temm. et Schl., Faun. E.Siberia. 

 Japon. Aa^cs, p. 18, pi. \-ii (1844). [Jajmn.] Mongolia 

 [Archibuteo strophiatns(Hodg^.)\s a synonym.] to Tibet, 

 Upland Buzzard. Xepal and 



L. Baikal ; 

 (,*as. Japan ; 

 Avinters 

 China, 

 Turkestan, 

 N. India, 



