212 FALCONID^. 



32. BUTEOGALLUS. ^ 



Type. 

 Buteogallus, Less. Traite, p. 83 (1831) B. sequinoctialia. 



Range. Guiana and Columbia. 



1. Buteogallus aequinoctialis. 



Falco jequinoctialis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 265 (1788). 



Le Buson, Levmll Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 86, pi. 21 (1799) ; Siaulev. Grit. 



01)1 Levaill. p. 25 (1858). 

 Falco buson, Daud. Traite, ii. p. 168 (1800). 

 Buteo buson, Vigors, Zool. Journ. i. p. 340 (1824). 

 Buteogallus cathartoides, Less. Traite, p. 83 (1831). 

 Buteogallus buson, Gray, List Gen. B. p. 2 (1840) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 17 (1850). 

 Daptrius buson, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. p. 14 (1844). 

 Morphnus buson, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 15 (1845). 

 Buteo ffiquinoctialis, Grai/, Cat. Accipitr. 1848, p. 37; Strickl. Om. 



Syn. p. 42 (1855) ; Schl. Mies. P.-B. Buteones, p. 18 (1862) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 9 (1869). 

 Morphnus {equinoctialis. Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 1 (1849). 

 Hypomorphnus fequinoctialis, Sundev. Crit. om. Levaill. p. 25 (1858). 

 Buteogallus aequinoctialis, Scl. ^ Salv. Nomencl. p. 119 (1873). 



Adult. Above black, with rufous margins to the dorsal feathers 

 and wing-coverts ; head entirely black, as also the lower back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts, the latter with narrow white tips ; quills 

 bright chestnut ; primaries externally slaty black ; secondaries with 

 a broad band of black across the tips, the innermost brown, with 

 paler tips ; tail black, plainly tipped with white, and barred across 

 the middle with another indistinct band of white, plainer on the 

 inner webs ; throat dusky black ; rest of under surface bright rufous, 

 numerously crossed with black bars, narrower on thighs, and reduced 

 to vermiculations on under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts rufous, 

 ban-ed with black like the breast, some of the outer ones largely 

 marked with black ; cere and orbits yellow ; bill yellow at base, 

 horn-brown towards tip ; feet yeUow. Total length 19 inches, cul- 

 men 1-7, wing 13-25, tail 7'5, tarsus 3-5. 



Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. st. British Guiana. "Royal Geographical Society [P.]. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Demerara. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



33. URUBITINGA. „ 



Type. 



Urubitinga, Less. Bev. Zool. 1839, p. 132 Typo nullo ! 



Urubitinga, Lnfr. in D'Orb. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ii. 



p. 786 (1842, ex Less.) U. zonura. 



Hypomorphnus, Cab. Wiegin. Arch. 1844, p. 263 . . U. zonura. 

 Spizigeranus, Kaup, Classif. Sdug. u. Vog. p. 120 



(1844) U. zonura. 



Leucoptemis, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 210 U. melanops. 



Pseudastur, Bli/f/i, Cat. B. Mus. As. Sac. Beng. 



p. 24 (1849) " U. lacemulata. 



