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Key to the Natural Groups and Species (x\.dults). 



A. Tail usually brown, sometimes washed with 

 rufous, with a varying immber of transverse 

 bars ; generally from 6 to 12, often indistinct. 

 General plumage sooty-black, shaded with 

 brown ; tail greyish-brown with 12 or 18 

 blackish bars. 



1.30. Buteo galapagensis (Gould), P.Z.S., 1837, i^. 9 Galapagos Is, 

 \ Galapagos Is.] 

 Galapagos Buzzard. 



Aberrant species ; size small ; wingcJ 10.75 in., 

 very short and rounded ; inner webs of first 4 

 primaries emarginate ; tips of primaries 

 reaching to about middle of tail ; tail with 8 

 or 9 darker bars ; plumage blackish-brown 

 (dark phase) or brown above and buff below 

 and on head (light phase). 



131. Buteo solitarius Peale, Zool. U.S. Exp]. Hawaiian 

 Exped. Birds, p. 02 (1848). [Karakaloa Bay, Archipelago 

 Hawaii.] 



Solitary Buzzard. 



Size small; length (^ 18.50, wing 11.8 in.; 

 above pale brown ; tail with 6 or 7 bands of 

 darker brown ; below white, throat narrowly 

 and breast broadly streaked with pale brown ; 

 belly and thighs uniform pale brown. 



132. Buteo hrachyptents Hs.rtl., Faun. Madag.p.l. Madagascar. 

 (1861). [Madagascar.] 



Short -winged Buzzard. 



Size large, length $, 24.5 ; wing 19 in. ; head 

 and neck white, with broad streaks of pale 

 brown ; above dull brown ; tail with indistinct 

 darker cross-bars, the base and inner webs 

 white ; below white, barred on throat and 

 streaked on breast Avith dark brown ; flanks 

 dark brown. 



133. Bateo hemilasius Temm. et Schl., Faun. E.Siberia. 

 Japon. Aves. p. 18, pi. vii (1844). [Ja'2)an.] Mongolia 

 [Archibuteo strophiatus(H.odgs . )i s a synonym .] to Tibet, 

 Upland Buzzard. Nepal and 



L. Baikal ; 

 Cas. Japan ; 

 winters 

 China, 

 Turkestan, 

 J^. India, 



