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FALCONIDJE. 



little more conspicuous on the throat and breast: primaries deep 

 black, externally shaded with ashy, secondaries a little browner, the 

 inner web barred with white ; tail ashy brown, more decidedly ashy 

 towards the base, the feathers tipped with white on the inner ^veh, 

 and crossed with seven or eight black bars, not including the sub- 

 terminal band, which is very broad ; the under surface of both the 

 wings and tail white, the black bands very distinct. Total length 

 21-5 uiches, culmen 1-6, wing 16-6, tail 9-8, tarsus 3. 



Sab. From Ai'izona and California southwards along the western 

 coast of Central America to Guiana and Trinidad. 



a. Ad. 



b. Ad. 



St. 

 St. 



Mexico. 

 Mexico. 



John Taylor, Esq. [P.]. Type of B. albonotatus. 



27. BUTEO. Type. 



Buteo, Qiv. Le^. Atiat. Com2}. i. tabl. ois. (1800) . . B. vulgaris. 

 Craxirex, Gould, in Dariv. Voy. Beagle, Birds, p. 22 



(1841) B. galapagensis. 



Geranoaetus, Kmij), Classif. Sdug. u. Vog. p. 122 



(1844) B. melanoleucus. 



Butaquila, Hodgs. in Grays Zool. 3Iisc. p. 81 (1844) B. ferox. 



PcecUoptemis, Kaiip, Isis, 1847, p. 329 B. latissimus. 



Heteroaetus, Eaup, Cantr. Orn. 1850, p. 74 B. melanoleucus. 



Nostril and foot of Buteo ohsoktus. 



Range. The whole of the New "World, likewise the entire Old 

 World, excepting the Indo-Malayan subrcgion, and the whole of 

 Australasia and Oceania, in all of which it is absent. 



