27. BUTEO. 



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shaded with silvery grey, the secondaries broadly tipped with white ; 

 tail white, tipped with greyish white, crossed with ten or eleven 

 narrow bars of grey, and subterminaUy banded with slaty black ; 

 upper tail-coverts white, with a few indications of narrow slaty bars ; 

 lores white ; cheeks white, narrowly lined with slaty grey ; entii-e 

 under surface of body wliite, including the under wing-coverts ; many 

 of the feathers on the sides of breast and flanks internally slaty 

 grey and externally barred with the same colour. Total length 

 21 inches, culmen 1"55, wing 15, tail 9, tarsus 3-3. 



Adult female. Similar to the male below, but larger, and distin- 

 guished by its bright brick-red back and scapulars, traces of which 

 coloration extend over the upper wing- and tail-coverts, as well as 

 the secondaries, which have evident blackish cross bars. Total 

 length 25 inches, wing 1S*5, tail 10, tarsus 3-7. 



Hab. Falkland Islands ; from Patagonia (as high as 40° S. lat. 

 on east coast) along the western coast of South America into Peru. 



Le Rounoir, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 73, pi. 16 (1799). 



Falco jakal, Daud. Traitc, ii. p. 161 (1800, ex Levaill.) 



Buteo jakal, Vig. Zool. Journ. i. p. 340 (1824) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 

 p. II (1849) ; Kaiip, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 76; Up. Consp. i. p. 19 

 (1850); StricH. Orn. Si/n. p. 33 (1855); Schl. Mits. I'.-B. Bu- 

 teones, p. 14 (1862) ; Laijard, B. S. Afr. p. 8 (1867) ; Gurmy in 

 Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 31 (1872). 



Buteo jacal, Grill, Zool. Antechn. p. 49 (1858). 



