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147. BiUeo ahbreviatiLs abbreviatas Gab., in 

 Schomb. Reis. Guiana, iii, p. 739 (1848) 

 [British Guiana.] 

 Zone-tailed Buzzard. 



Much .smaller ; wing "0 " 12.50 ; tail in. ; 

 uniform sooty black ; tail with 4 grey bars 

 above, showing white below. 

 147a. Buteoabhreviatus minimus sxibsp.nov. ['"9 " 

 Miritiba, Braz., 18.8.09, coll. H.K.S.] 



D. Tail white. 



LengthrJ22 ; wing 15.25 in. ; general colour 

 of (^ bluish-slate ; tail white with about 9 

 narrow bars of slate grey and broad sub- 

 terminal blackish band ; $ head, neck and 

 upper breast slate ; mantle, scapulars and 

 belly rufous. 

 148. Buteo poliosomus (Quoy et Gaini.) Voy. 

 de rUran. Ois. p. 92, pi. 14 (1824) {-'lies 

 Maloaiiies."] 

 Falkland Island Buzzard. 



Size similar; adult 3^, general plumage slate, 

 tail with 8 darker bars and broad black sub- 

 terminal band ; abdomen and thighs slate, 

 more or less barred with white ; $ wings, 

 rump and belly more or less suffused witli 

 rufous ; thighs rufous barred with white. 

 Buteo hypospodiiis Gurncy, Ibis, 1870, p. 

 73,1)1.3. [Meddlin.] 

 Grey-bellied Buzzard. 



149. 



150. 



i) 19 in. ; above and tail 

 B. e. erythronotus ; below 



Larger : wing ($ 



much as in $ of 



barred with white and slate, the breast mixed 



with rufous. 



Buteo jioecilochrous 



176. [Yauayacu.] 



Berl. and Stolzm.] 



Gurney's Red-backed Buzzard 



Gurney, Ibis, 1879, p. 

 [ = 5. melanosterniis . 



Brit. Guiana, 

 Surinam, 

 Brazil, 

 Venezuela, 

 Mexico, 

 Arizona, New 

 Mexico, 

 Texas, S. to 

 Bolivia. 



S. Brazil. 



Ghile, 

 Patagonia, 

 Falkland Is., 

 Tierra del 

 Fuego. 



(blombia, 

 Venezuela, 

 Amazonia. 

 Brazil . 



Ecuador, 

 Peru, 

 Bolivia , 

 Chile, 

 Argentina. 



