SHINING BUZZARD HAWK 



tip ; under parts buffy white streaked with dusky, 

 a dark streak along lower part of cheeks. 



A migrant from North America, of heavy, 

 sluggish flight but sometimes soaring. We wit- 

 nessed large flocks of them on their northward 

 migration, slowly drifting over the Radio Station 

 at the entrance to Darien Harbor, San Miguel 

 Bay, March 14, 1926. 



9. Asturina nitida nitida (Latham) 

 Shining Buzzard Hawk 



Sexes alike. Length, about 405 mm. (16.00 



in.); tail, about 175 mm. (6.80 in.). Ashy gray 

 above, barred with silvery white; tail black 

 tipped with whitish and crossed by a broad 

 white band, the under surface paler and crossed 

 by a second narrower white band; sides of face 

 and throat dull whitish, the remaining under 

 parts barred gray and white, the bars diminishing 

 in width on abdomen; under surface of wings 

 white, the quills sparsely barred with gray. Bill 

 black, cere and growth around bill, gray; feet 

 yellow. 



Young. Very different, blackish brown above, 

 feathers for the most part margined with rufous ; 

 crown buffy white streaked with blackish; fore- 

 head, sides of crown and face and under parts 

 buffy white sparsely but heavily spotted with 

 brown on breast, abdomen and sides; a black 

 line over and in continuation of eye; under wing 

 coverts tawny, under surface of quills ashy 



