BROAD-WINGED HAWK 



Sexes alike. Bluish slate above, the sides of 

 head and neck paler, top of head sooty; tail 

 blackish with four narrow gray bands; below 

 pale bluish gray, the thighs bright chestnut; 

 under wing coverts white, the under surface of 

 quills ashen barred with dusky. Bill black, cere 

 and feet yellow. 



Young. Brownish above, the feathers mar- 

 gined with rufous; top of head black, sides brown- 

 ish streaked on cheeks with white, a white streak 

 striped with black over eye; tail blackish ~vith 

 three white bands and tipped with white; under 

 parts buffy, unmarked. 



Tail long and rounded. Wings rather short 

 and rounded, the tips of the quills spreading in 

 flight. Flight swift, a succession of rapid flaps 

 followed by a short sail. Rarely seen above the 

 tree tops. 



8. Buteo platypterus platypterus (Vieillot) 

 Broad-winged Hawk 



Sexes alike. Length, about 395 mm. (15.50 



in.); tail, about 178 mm. (7.00 in.). Above 

 dusky, the feathers somewhat margined with 

 buffy and rufous; tail crossed by two to four 

 bands of grayish white and tipped with whitish; 

 chin white; chest and breast whitish, heavily 

 barred with brownish tawny; abdomen white 

 barred with dull rufous. 



Young. Tail grayish brown with three to 

 five distinct blackish bars and a narrow white 

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