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c. Thighs white, barred with orange tawny. 



Breast brown with white spots, rest of under 

 parts barred with orange tawny and white ; 

 upper tail -co verts white, barred with reddish. 



d. Thighs rufous. 



Below dark brown, with a white band, marked 

 with brown, across breast ; upper tai] -coverts 

 white, tinged with grey and rufous. 



Below brown, streaked with white ; upper tail 

 coverts rufous, tipped with white. 



C. cineretis. 



C. oerugi- 

 nosns. 



C. ranivorus. 



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Gen. XIX. MICRASTUR Gray (1841 



Nostrils roinid, with a bony excrescence ; tarsi and 

 feet large and robust ; tarsus reticulated behind ; 

 in front covered with small scutellae. 



Size large, length, J, 20 in., wing 10.4 ; 9, 

 about 24 in. ; above blackish with Avhite 

 nuchal collar ; tail with 3 white bands ; below 

 white with black shaft lines ; juv. below 

 barred ; intermediate plumage below pale 

 ochraceous fawn, as well as sides of face and 

 nuchal collar. 



Micrastur melanoleucm melanoleuctis (V^ieill.) 

 N.D. X., p. 327 (1817). [Paraguay.] 

 Collared Harrier -Hawk 



Much smaller ; winged [^J 8.00 in. ; tarsi and 

 feet much smaller and weaker ; white tail 

 bands above partly obscured by brown patches 

 in centre and below less extensive ; thos(^ on 

 outer feathers only 4 in number in place of 

 iu typical form. 



Micrastur melanoleacus buchhyi, subsp. nov. 

 \iid.,(^'U Sarayacu, Ec. Feb. 1880, Buckley, 

 P>. Mus. coll.No. 87, 5. 1. 122.] 



8. Mexico 

 to Colombia, 

 Venezuela, 

 Brazil and 

 Paragiuxy. 



Ecuador. 



Size medium, length ($) 17.5 ; wing U.8 ; 



above slate ; tail with 3 bands of ashy-brown 



showing white below ; below white with 



l)lack shaft lines ; no nuchal collar. 



Micrastur mirandollei (Schl.),Nederl . Tijdschr., L'pper E. 



i., p. 131 (1863). [Dutch Guiana.] Peru, Guiana j 



MirandoUc's Harrier-Hawk. Panaiua. 



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