130 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus BUTBO Cuvier. 



Buteo Cuv. Leg. Anat. Comp. I. tabl. ii. Ois. 17 79-1800. Type, 

 Falco buteo Linn. 



[336.] Buteo buteo (Linn.). 



European Buzzard. 



Falco buteo Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 90. 

 Buteo buteo Light. Nomencl. Mus. Berol. 1854, 3. 



[B~ C-, R435, C— .] 



Geog. Dist. — Europe and Western Asia. Accidental in North 

 America (Michigan?). 



337. Buteo borealis (Gmel.). 



Red-tailed Hawk. 



Falco borealis Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 266. 



Buteo borealis Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. IV. 18 16, 478. 



[B23, C351, R436, C516.] 

 Geog.. Dist. — Eastern North America, west to the Great Plains, 

 north to about Lat. 60°, south to eastern Mexico. Breeds throughout 

 its range, except possibly the extreme southern portion. 



337 a. Buteo borealis kriderii Hoopes. 



Krider's Hawk. 



Buteo borealis var. kriderii Hoopes, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 1873, 238, pi. 5. 



[B— , C 351^, R436^. C 519.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Plains of the United States, from Wyoming and the 

 Dakotas to Minnesota, and south to Texas ; casual in Iowa and 

 Illinois. 



337 b, Buteo borealis calurus (Cass.). 



Western Red-tail. 



Buteo calurus Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. VII. 1855, 281. 

 Buteo borealis var. calurus Ridgw. Bull. Essex Inst. V. Nov. 

 1873, 186. 



