27. BDTEO. 191 



15. Buteo harlani. 



Falco harlani, Aud. B. Am. i. pi. Ixxxvi. ; id. Om. Biogr. p. 441 (1830) 

 Buteo harlani, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. Sf N. Am. p. 3 (1838) ; Grau 



Cat. Aecipitr.lQU, p. 13; Cass. B. Calif, p. 101 (1855): Strickl. 



Orn.S,,n p. 31 (1855) ; Scl P. Z. S. 1857, p. 211 ; Cooper, B. Calif. 



ed. Batrd, p. 473 (1871) ; Corns, Key to N. Am. B. p. 216 (1872), 



Adult (type of species). Uuiform deep brown with a chocolate 

 gloss, the scapulars and wing-coverts with concealed ashy brown 

 bands and tips, the former as well as the feathers of the head and 

 hind neck much varied with white at the base; quiUs brown 

 externally ashy grey, ineUning to silvery grey on outer web of 

 pnmanes, all barred across with darker brown, the inner webs 

 white below, the cross bars distinct towards the tips, but reduced 

 tofreckhngs towards the base, the primaries uniform brown for 

 apical half; upper tail-coverts brown, mottled and barred with 

 rufous on the central and with white on the outer ones ; tail ashy 

 grey above, washed with rufous, tipped with rufous white or ashy 

 white, before which a broad subtermiual bar of black, all the rest 

 ot the feathers mottled and freckled with black, the under surface 

 of the tail white, with a few blackish freckUngs ; sides of head and 

 under surface of body sooty brown, the cheeks blackish, and the 

 generahty of the feathers varied with white bases; under taU- 

 coverts brown, washed with rufous or with white, with which they 

 are also barred and tipped. Total length 22-5 inches, culmen (imper- 

 fect, about) 1-7, wing 15-3, tail 10, tarsus 3-4. 



Young. Deep brown, some of the feathers of the head and inter- 

 scapulary region slightly margined with ochraceous buff, the upper 

 tail-coverts barred on outer and spotted on inner web with the same 

 colour ; the median coverts notched on the inner web with whitish 

 buff ; pnmanes blackish, the secondaries deep brown, barred with 

 blackish brown, the bars showing very distinctly below, where the 

 inner webs are whitish ; taU brown, tinged with pale rufous, tipped 

 with whity brown and crossed with twelve bars of deeper brown • 

 sides of face and of neck deep brown, the feathers margined with 

 ochraceous, causing a distinctly streaked appearance, the cheeks 

 blackish ; under surface of body deep brown, broadly streaked with 

 ochraceous, which forms broad margins or spots on the feathers, 

 the thighs rufescent, with broad bars of dark brown ; under tail- 

 coverts barred across with dark brown and pale fulvous • under 

 wing-coverts dark brown, the feathers barred, spotted, or margined 

 with rufous ochre. 



Hah. Southern United States to Guatemala. 



a. Ad. sk. Louisiania. J. J. Audubon, Esq. TP.]. Tvne of sneciM 



6. Imm.8k. Western Mexico. Purchased. "^I L-^-J. lypeoi species. 



16. Buteo lineatas. 



Barred-breasted Buzzard, Lath. Geti. Syn. i. p. 5Q (1781) 

 Ked-shouldered Falcon, Perm. Arctic Zool. p. 206 (1785) 

 Winter Falcon, Penn. torn. cit. p. 207 (17a5) 



