55 



15(). 



Asturina nitida nitida (Lath.), 

 p. 41 (1790). [Cayenntl 

 JSliinino; Buzzard-Hawk. 



Iiul. Orn , i. 



156a. 



157, 



[Not seen.] 



Asturina nitida pallida Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc, 



Wash., xxviii.. p. 170 (li)15). 



Abo ve ashy-grey without white bars; head and 

 nape lighter; tail with whitisli baud across 

 middle with remains of another nearer base, 

 below banded as ^. n. nitida, except on breast, 

 which is ashy-grey with black shaft strij)es. 

 Asturina j)la^iata Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, i., 

 Asturina?, ]). 1 (1862). [ Vera Cruz]. 

 Mexican Goshawk. 



S.E. Brazil, 

 Amazonia, 

 Guiana, 

 Colombia to 

 Panama. 



Bolivia. 



Costa Rica, 

 N. to S. 

 Arizona and 

 Lower Rio 

 Grande 

 Valley. 



Gen. XXXV. RUPORNIS Kaup (1844). 



Feet and claws much smaller and weaker. 

 Size rather smaller than Asturina. 



Length cJ 14. M-ing 8.70 in. ; above pale ashy- 

 grey ; tail light ashy with 3 broad bands of 

 black ; inner webs of wing quills rufous, 

 barred with black, outer webs and tips ashy 

 brown ; below Avhite, barred with j)ale 

 rufous or rufous ashy, the chest and throat 

 nearly miiform. 

 158. Bupornis magnirostris magnirostris (Gmel.j, 

 S.N., i., p. 282 (1788). [Cayenne]. 

 Large-billed Hawk. 



[Not seen.] 

 158a. Eupornis magnirostris occidus Bangs, Pr. Biol. 

 Soc, Wash.", xxiv., p. 187 (1911). [Rio 

 Tembopata.] 

 Bangs 's Hawk. 



Above browner ; tail with interspaces ashy. 



1581). Rupornis magnirostris griseicauda Ridgw., Pr. 



Bos. Soc, N.H., xvi., p. 47, (1873) [Mexico ?] 



Guiana, 

 Venezuela, 

 Colombia, 

 Peru, Lesser 

 Antilles. 



Peru . 



Mexico to 

 Guatemala 



and N. 

 Nicaragua 



