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Buteo typhoius Wetmore 



Biiteo typhoius Wetmore, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 48, art. 12, Dec. 3, 

 1923, p. 489, figs. 3-5- 



Lower Miocene (Lower Harrison beds) ; Upper Miocene ^^ (Lower 

 Snake Creek beds, type locality) : south of Agate, Sioux County, 

 Nebraska. 



Buteo ales (Wetmore) 



Gcranoa'ctus ales Wetmore, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 16, No. 4, Apr. 10, 1926, 

 p. 403, pi. 38, figs. 1-5. 



Lower Miocene (Lower Harrison beds) : Quarry No. 2, Agate 

 Springs Fossil Quarries, Sioux County, Nebraska. 



Buteo contortus (Wetmore) 



Geranoactus contortus Wetmore, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 48, art. 

 12, Dec. 3, 1923, p. 492, figs. 6-9. 



Upper Miocene ^^ (Lower Snake Creek beds) : Sinclair Draw (type 

 locality) and Olcott Hill, Sioux County, Nebraska. 



Buteo dananus (Marsh) 

 Aquila danana Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 2, August 1871, p. 125. 



Lower Pliocene (Upper Snake Creek beds) : Loup Fork River, 

 Nebraska. 



Buteo conterminus (Wetmore) 



Geranoactus conterminus Wetmore, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 48, 

 art. 12, Dec. 3, 1923, p. 497, figs. 11-13. 



Lower Pliocene (Upper Snake Creek beds) : 20 miles south of 

 Agate, Sioux County, Nebraska. 



Genus PARABUTEO Ridgway 



Parahutco Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. North Amer. 

 Birds, vol. 3, 1874, p. 250. Type, by monotypy, Buteo harrisi Audubon. 



Parabuteo unicinctus (Temminck) : Harris' Hawk 



Falco unicinctus Temminck, Planch. Col. Ois., livr. 53, Dec. 25, 1824, pi. 313. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: San Josecito Cave, 

 Aramberri, Nuevo Leon, 



^3 Possibly early Pliocene ; cf. Cook, H. J., and Cook, M. C, Nebraska Geol. 

 Surv., Paper No. 5, I933, P- 42. 



