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147. 



147a. 



Butco ahbreviaiiis ahbrematiis Gab., in 

 Schomb. Reis. Guiana, iii, p. 739 (1848) 

 [British Guiaiia.] 

 Zone-tailed Buzzard, 



Much .smaller ; wing "O " 12.50 ; tail G in. ; 

 uniform sooty black ; tail with 4 grey bars 

 above, .showing white below. 

 Buteo ahbreviatus minima.^ .subsp. no v. [" $ " 

 Miriliba, Braz., 18.8.09, coll. H.K.8.] 



D. Tail white. 



Length(^22 ; wing 15.25 in. ; general colour 

 of (^ bluish-.slate ; tail white with about 9 

 narroAv^ bars of slate grey and broad sub- 

 terminal blackish band ; $ head, neck and 

 upper breast slate ; mantle, scapulars and 

 belh^ rufous. 



148. Buteo 2iolioso7nus (Quov et Gaim.) V'oy. 

 de I'Uran. Ois. p. 92, pi. 14 (1824) ["' lies 

 Malouines."] 



Falkland Island Buzzard. 



Size similar ; adult q, general plumage slate, 

 tail with 8 darker bars and broad black sub- 

 terminal band ; abdomen and thighs slate, 

 more or less barred with white ; $ wings, 

 rump and belly more or less suffused with 

 rufous ; thighs rufous barred with white. 



149. Buteo hypospodius Gurney, Ibis, 1876, p. 

 73, pi. 3. [MedelUn.] 



Gre3^-bellied Buzzard. 



Larger : wing ($ ?) 19 in. ; above and tail 

 much as in $ of B. e. erythronotus ; below 

 barred with white and slate, the brea.st mixed 

 with rufous. 



150. Buteo pcecilochrous Gurney, Ibis, 1879, p. 

 176. [Yauayacu.]^ [ = 5. melanosternus. 

 Berl. and .Stolzm.] 



Gurnev's Red-backed Buzzard. 



Brit. Guiana, 

 Surinam, 

 Brazil, 

 Venezuela, 

 Mexico, 

 Arizona, New 

 Mexico, 

 Texas, S. to 

 Bolivia. 



S. Brazil. 



Chile, 

 Patagonia, 

 Falkland Is. 

 Tierra del 

 Fuego. 



Colombia, 

 Venezuela, 

 Amazonia. 

 Brazil . 



Ecuador, 



Peru, 



Bolivia, 



Chile, 



Argentina. 



