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and irregularly barred with dark brown ; 

 under surface of tail and tips of primaries 

 whitish. 



Gen. XXIX MKdATKIORCHIS Salvad. <.\: D'Alb. (1875). 

 Type bv orig. desig. M. doriu- Salvad. lS: D'Alb. 



Wings short, slightly longer than tail ; tail long, 

 rounded ; inner toe shorter than outer. 



127. Megatriorchis dorice Salvad. (S: D'Alb., S.E. New- 

 Ann. ]\Ius. Civ. (ienov. vii., ]). 805 (1875). (aiinea. 

 [Yule Island.] 

 Doria's Buzzard- Hawk. 



Wing ad. (sexes ?), 290-325 mm. ; plumage 

 above brownish black, with rufescent 

 margins ; below white, spotted longitudin- 

 ally with brown ; wings and tail abo\'e 

 banded alternately with brownish-black 

 and pale greyish-brown. 



(ien XXX. HETEROSPIZIAS Sharpe (1874j 

 Type by monotypy Falco vicyidioiinlis Lath. 



Nostrils round, with large tubercular process ; 

 wings reaching up to or beyond tail ; tail about 

 twice equal to tarsus. 



*128. Hcierospizias 

 (Lath.), Ind 

 [Cayenne. \ 

 Red-winged Hawk 



meridional is meridional is 

 Orn., 1., p. 36 (1790). 



Size of Bufeo ; wng S 386-404. ,: 393-417 

 mm. ; head and shoulders rufous ; mantle 

 and scapulars pale slate grey with rufous 

 margins ; rump and tail purplish black, tail 

 with a medium white bar and white tips ; 

 below rufous with narrow neiuly obsolete 

 black bars. 



S. America 

 (Panama and 

 Colombia to 

 S.E. Brazil. 

 Bolivia and 

 Paraguay). 



