54 



154. 



Plumage above blackish with chestniit mar- 

 gins ; head streaked with black and Avhite ; 

 tail silvery ashy, tinged with rufous, the 

 base and tip white ; below white, with 

 black shaft lines on breast and arroAv heads on 

 Hanks ; legs bright chestnut barred Avitli 

 black. 



Archibuteo fernujineus (Licht, 

 Akad. Wiss. Berl. (Ph3-s. Kl.), 

 (1839). [Near Monterey, Cal.\ 

 Ferruginous Rough-leg. 



), Abh. 



18;}8, p 



K. 



428 



W. North 

 America, S. 

 to California ; 

 in winter to 

 Lower 



California and 

 N. Mexico. 



Gen. XXXIII. BUTEOLA Bp. (1855). 



Nostrils round, with distinct central tubercle ; wing 

 with 3 outer primaries emarginate on inner webs^ 

 the 4th sinuate. 



Size moderate ; length,^ (?) 15.5, wing 11.3 

 in. ; $ (?) 16, wing 13 in. Above slaty-black ; 

 tail ashy-brown, tipjDed with whitish and 

 with 4 bars of blackish -brown ; sides of face 

 and under surface of body white ; melanistic 

 variety {B. fuliginosa, Scl.] immature ?, 

 general jDlumage sooty-black ; tail brown 

 with 8 blackish bands. 

 155. Buteola brachyura (Vieill.), N. Diet. d'Hist., 

 Nat. iv., p. 477 (1816). [Cayenne]. 

 Short -tailed Buzzard. 



Brazil, 

 Bolivia, 

 Peru, Guiana , 

 N. to Central 

 America and 

 Florida. 



Gen. XXXIV ASTURINA Vieill. (1816). 



Tibiae long ; feet large and powerful ; nostrils round, 

 with indistinct and concealed tubercle at base of 

 upper margin. Size medium (length 16-18 in.). 



(^ $ above ashy -grey , barred Mdth silvery white, 

 most narrowly on the head and nape, bars be- 

 coming duller and broader on wings ; upper 

 tail-coverts blackish, tipped with white ; tail 

 blackish Avith a broad Avhite band about Jrd of 

 distancefromtii) and a second incoinplcte band 

 on outer feathers ; body beloAV regularly banded 

 with silvery Avhite and slaty grey. 



