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29. BUTEOLA. 



Type. 



Buteola, Bp. C. It. xli. p. 651 (1855) B. bracliyura. 



Bill of Buteola brachyura. 



Range. From Yeragua, in Central America, through Guiana, into 

 Amazonia and Peru. 



1. Buteola brachyura. 



Buteo brachyui-us, Vieill. N. Diet. iv. p. 477 (1816) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 12 (1849) ; Pucher. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1850, p. 86 ; Bp. torn. 



cit. p. 481 ; Sah. P. Z. S. 1870, p. '215. 

 Falco albifrons, Max. Beitr. iii. p. 187 (1830). 

 Buteo melanoleucus, Less. Traite, p. 82 (1831). 

 Astur poliogaster, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. p. 66 (1848). 

 Asturina albifrons, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 200 : Bp. Coiisp. i. p. 31 



(1850). 

 Astur poliogaster, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. p. 66 (184S). 

 Asturina brachyui-a, Bp. Rev. et Mag. 1850, p. 489 ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. 



p. 42 (1855). 

 Asturina diadema, Kaup, Rev. et Mag. 1850, p. 489. 

 Buteola brachyura, Bp. C. R. xli. p. 651 (1855) ; Scl. ^ Sah. P. Z. S. 



1869, p. 130; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 118 (1873). 

 Buteo albifrons, Schl. Mm. P.-B. Buteones, p. 10 (1862) ; id. Revue 



Accipitr. p. 109 (1873). 

 Buteo minutus, Pek. Sitz. Akad. Wien, xliv. p. 14 (1862) ; id. Verh. 



z.-h.Wien, 1862, p. 141 ; id. Reis. Novara, Vog. p. 16 (1865) ; id. 



Orn. Bras. pp. 3, 396 (1871). 

 Astur brachyura. Gray, Hand-l. i. p. .30 (1869). 

 Buteola minuta, Giehel, Orn. Thes. i. p. 517 (1872). 



Adult. Entire upper surface, including the sides of the face and 

 of the neck, slaty black ; a conspicuous loral spot and entire under 

 surface white, sUghtly shaded with dark brown on the sides of the 

 breast ; quills blackish brown, the secondaries a little clearer brown 

 tipped with duU white, the quills white at the base of inner web, the 

 primaries freckled and the secondaries indistinctly barred with 

 blackish brown ; upper tail-coverts shaded with ashy bro'mi near 

 the tips, the outermost with concealed white bars ; tail ashy brown, 

 tipped with duU white, crossed with four bars of blackish brown, the 

 under surface paler and inclining to greyish white, causing the 

 black cross bands to appear more distinct ; under wing-coverts 

 white. Total length 15-5 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 11*3, tail 6-3, 

 tarsus 2-25. 



