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247. 



Length $ 20-22 in. ; wing 12.25-13.25 in. ; 

 above glossy black ; head slaty grey ; wing 

 quills black, banded with slate grey ; tail 

 black with 3 bands of ashy grey and tipped 

 with same ; below w^hite ; bill blackish ; 

 feet yellow. 



Leptodon palliatiis (Temm.), PI. Col., i., pi. 

 204 (1823). [Brazil, type in Brit. Mus.] 

 [= L. cayennensis, auct. plur.] 

 Cayenne Kite. 



Brazil, Peru, 

 Guiana to 

 Centr. Amer, 



Gen. LXXII. GYPOICTINIA Kaup (1847 . 



Bill not toothed ; head crested ; loral space 

 feathered ; wings reaching to end of tail ; greater 

 l^art of tarsus bare in front. 



Length 24 ; wing 19 ; tail 8.5 in. ; general 

 plumage above and below blackish, browner 

 on scapulars and more rufous on rump ; crest 

 and nape tawny rufous with black centres to 

 the feathers : thighs and under tail-coverts 

 rufous, with black shaft-lines ; tail ashy grey 

 above, whitish near base and below ; lesser 

 wing-coverts and secondaries margined with 

 ashy grey ; primaries ashy white at base. 

 248. Gypoictinia melanosterna melanosterna Interior of 

 (Gould), P.Z.8., 1840, p. 162 (1841). [N.S. N.S. Wales, 

 Wales, type in Mus. Philad. Acad.] S. Australia. 



Blackbreasted Buzzard. 



" Differs from G. m. melanosterna in lacking 

 the black on head and breast." 

 248a. Gypoictinia melanosterna decepta Math., Nov. W. Australia, 

 Zool., xviii., p. 250 (1912). [Parry s Creek, Northern 

 N.W. Australia.] Territory. 



Northern Buzzard. 



Gen. LXXIII. ELANUS Savigny (1809). 



Tarsus feathered for nearly two-thirds of its length 

 in front ; claws without groo\'e on under surface. 



Sexes nearly similar in size ; length ad. about 

 13 ; wing 10.15-11.20 ; tail 5.16 in. ; above 

 ashy grey, lighter on head ; forehead, eyebrow, 

 and face white ; feathers round eye black ; 



