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Key to ttir Natural Croups and Speofes (Adttlts). 



A. Tail usually broAvn, soiiioliincs washed willi 

 rufous, with a. varying luunbej- of trans vcisc 

 bars ; generally from Oto 12, often iiulistiiict. 



General plumage sooty-black, shaded with 

 broAvn ; tail greyish-browu with 12 or 1.'! 

 blackish bars. 

 I.'>(». JhUeo galapagen.sis (iUm\i\). V.7j.^.. IS:]?, p. i» (JaJai)agos Is. 

 [Gakqyagos Is.] 

 Galapagos Buzzard. 



Aberrant species ; size small ; Aving(^ 10.7.") in., 

 very short and rounded ; inner webs of first 4 

 primaries emarginate ; tips of primaries 

 reaching to about middle of tail ; tail with S 

 or 9 darker bars ; plumage blackish-brown 

 (dark phase) or brown above and buff belo\\- 

 and on head (light phase). 

 l.')l. fJuleo solitarivfi Peale, Zool. LJ.S. Ex])i. Ha\v;i.ii;iii 



Ex]:)ed. Birds, p. r)2 (I S4S). \K<ii(ih((l()a lUtji. Ar(4ii])(4ag() 



Ha'iv(dl.\ 



Sol ita ry Buzzard . 



Size small; length (^ 18.50, wing 11.8 in.; 

 above pale brown ; tail with 6 or 7 bands of 

 darker brown ; beloM- white, throat narrowly 

 and breast broadly streaked with pale broAvn : 

 belly and thighs uniform pale brown. 

 182. Buteo hrachypterus Hart I.. Faim. Madag.p.l. Madagascar. 

 (1861). {3iadagascar.\ 

 Short -winged Buzzard. 



Size large, length $. 24.5 ; wing 19 in. ; head 

 and neck Avhite, with broad streaks of ])ale 

 brown ; above dull brown ; tail with indistinct 

 darker cross-bars, the base and inner webs 

 white ; below white, barred on throat and 

 streaked on breast with dark brown : flanks 

 dark brown. 

 133. Buteo hemilasius Tern in. et Schl., I'aiui. E.Siberia, 

 Japon. Aves. p. 18, pi. vii (1844). [Japan.] Mongolia 

 [Arch ibiUeo strophiati(s{Iiodgs .)\i^ a synonym.] to Tibet, 

 Upland Buzzard. Nepal and 



L. Baikal : 

 CVis. Ja])an : 

 winteis 

 China, 

 Turkestan, 

 N. India, 



