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The call is a high-pitched scream, suggesting that of the red-tailed 

 hawk (Buteo jamaicensis). 



BUTEO PLATYPTERUS PLATYPTEEUS (VielUol): Broad- winged Hawk 



Sparvius Platypterus Vieillot, Tableau encj'clopedique et methodique . . ., 

 vol. 3, 1823, p. 1273 (Schuylkill River, Pa.). 



On the evening of November 5 at Kancho Grande I was told that 

 there was a hawk resting in a tree nearby and walked out to shoot 

 a female broadwing. This bird was thin and poor lilce other recently- 

 arrived migrants from the north. On November 6 I saw another, 

 and on November 9 I killed another female in the lower garden at 

 the house. 



BUTEO MAGNIEOSTRIS MAGNIEOSTRIS (Gmelln) 



Falco magnirostris Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1788, p. 282 (Cayenne). 



At Ocmnare de la Costa this hawk was fairly common at the end 

 of October, but none were seen in the rain forest area at Rancho 

 Grande. Near Maracay several were seen on October 21, when a 

 male was taken, and on November 11. Areas of open forest seem 

 best suited to the needs of this species so that in the scrubs covering 

 the northern Uanos it was abundant. I secured a male near Para- 

 para on November 12 and from November 13 to 21 saw several 

 daily near El Sombrero. Usually they rested quietly on open branches 

 and when I approached protested with shrill, squalling calls, finally 

 flying off through the trees. 



As indicated by Peters ® the group of hawks that has been called 

 Rupornis is not separable generically from Bvteo. As a group Buteo 

 magnirostris differs from such ordinary Buteos of the New World as 

 B. jamaicensis, B. lineatus, and B. platypterus in having the color 

 pattern of the immature little different from that of the adult. But 

 this can hardly be considered a generic character. 



The hawks of this type from northern Venezuela have been listed 

 as Buteo magnirostris insidiatrix (Bangs and Penard), which differs 

 from magnirostris in paler color particularly above, but if this race 

 occurs in the Republic it must be in the coastal region of the north- 

 western section. The two specimens secured at Maracay and Para- 

 para are slightly darker above than magnirostris as represented by 

 skins from British Guiana, and a male in the National Museum 

 from Valle in the M^rida region is also dark, all being very distinct 

 from the paler insidiatrix. 



HYPOMOEPHNUS URUBITINGA UEUBITINGA (GmcHn) 



Falco Uruhitinga Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 1, 1788, p. 265 (Brazil), 



Near Ocumare de la Costa from October 25 to 31 these hawks 

 were seen occasionally resting on tall cacti or agave stalks on the dry 



« Check-list of birds of the world, vol. 1, 1931, p. 228. 



