27. BUTEo. 193 



outer aspect of \nng ; quills also ashy brown, marked externally 

 with white in the same manner, the primaries slightly margined 

 with rufous on outer web, secondaries paler and obsoletely barred 

 across with light brown, tipped, but not so distinctly spotted, with 

 white ; under surface of wing whitish, barred across with pale 

 brown, the subterminal bar broadest ; feathers of back rufescent, 

 wath brown tips ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts dark 

 brown, the latter tipped and barred with white ; tail black, tipped 

 narrowly with white, and crossed with five narrow bands of white, 

 two of them concealed ; under surface of body pale rufous, with 

 faint whitish cross bars ; throat browner, streaked with dull white, 

 the breast-feathers also distinctly marked with central stripes of 

 dark brown ; thighs buff, with rufo'is cross bars ; under tail- 

 coverts white, with slight remains of rufous barring ; under wing- 

 coverts rufous buff, streaked with darker rufous or brown, the axil- 

 laries barred across with darker rufoun ; lower under wing-coverts 

 whitish, barred with ashy brown ; cere yellow ; bill bluish black ; 

 feet yellow ; claws black; iris bright amber. Total length 21 inches, 

 culmen 1-4, wing 13-2, tail 8-5, tarsus 3-1. 



Hab. North America, to which it is confined, wintering in Texas 

 and the southernmost States. 



a. Juv. St. Delaware, U.S.A. E. Doubleday, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Delaware, U.S.A. E. Doubleday, Esq. [P.]. 



e. Juv. St. San Francisco, Cal. Capt. Kellett and Lieut. Wood [P.]. 



d. Ad. st. N. America. , J. Gould, Esq. 



e. Juv. sk. California. G. Barclay, Esq. [P.]. 



f. 5 juv. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 

 ff. c? ad. sk. W. Mexico. Purchased. 

 h. 2 jnv. sk. W. Mexico. Purchased. 



Skeleton. 



17. Buteo latissimus. 



Falco pennsylvanicus, Wi/s. Am. Orn. vi. p. 92, pi. 54. fig. 1 (1812, 



nee V. pi. 46. fig. 1) ; Aud. B. Am. i. pi. 91, et Orn. Biogr. i. p. 461 



(18.31). 

 Falco latissimus, Wils. ut supra (in later published copies). 

 Falco wilsoni, Bp. Journ. Ac. Sc. N. Y. (teste Strickland). 

 Sparvius platypterus, Bonn, et Vieill Enc. Meth. iii. p. 1273 (1823). 

 Astur pennsylvanicus, Cuv. Regne An. i. p. 3.32 (1829). 

 Buteo pennsylvanicus, Bp. Oss. Beg. An. Cuv. p. 35 (1830) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 12 ( 1849) ; Cass. B. Calif, p. 100 (1855) ; Strickl. Orn. 



Si/n. p. 32 (1855) ; Cass, in Baird, B. N. Am. p. .30 (1860) ; Schl. 



Mm. P.-B. Buteones, p. 20 (1862) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 7 (I8',;9); 



Allen, Bull. Kan. Coll. ii. p. 330 (1871) ; Gimdl. J. f. O. 1871, 



p. 266 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 396 (1871) ; Coues, Key N. Am. B. 



p. 217 (1872); Schl. Revue Accipitr. p. 109 (1873); Scl. <^- Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Keotr. p. 119 (1873). 

 Astur latissimus, Jard. ed. Wik. Am. Orn. ii. p. 294 (1832). 

 Pcecilopternis vsilsoni, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 330. 

 Buteo wilsoni, Bp. Consp. i. p. 19 (1850). 



Younrj. Above brown ; the feathers of the back somewhat washed 



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