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524. Buteo pennsylvanicTis (Wils.) Bp. B 27. c 355. R 443. 



Broad- winged Buzzard Hawk. |See Addenda, Nos. 882, 883. 



525. Archibuteo lagopus sancti-johannis (Gm.) Riclg. BSO, 31. C356. R447. 



American Rough-legged Buzzard. 



526. Archibuteo femigineus (Licht.) Gr. B 32. c 357. R 448. 



Ferrugineous Bough-legged Buzzard. 



527. Asturina plagata Schl. B 33. c 358. R 445. 



Gray Hawk. 



528. Umbitinga anthracina (Licht.) Lafr. B . c . R 444. 



Anthracite Hawk. 



529. Onychotes gruberi Ridg. B . c 359. R 446. 



Gruber's Hawk. 



530. Pandion haliae'tus (L.) Sav. B 44. c 360. R 425. 



Fish Hawk; Osprey. 



531. Thrasyaetus harpyia (L.) Gr. B . c . R 450. (! M.) 



Harpy Eagle. 



524. B. penn-syl-van'-I-cus. See Dendrceca, No. 124. 



525. Arch-I-bu'-te-o lag-o'-pus sanc-tl-j6-han'-nls. Lat. archi-, equivalent to Gr. &pxos, & 



leader, a chief ; &px>> I rule, I am first ; the word simply means " arch-buzzard," like 

 archbishop, archetype, architect, &c. Lat. lagopus, Gr. \aycairovs, hare-footed, from \ayd>s, a 

 hare, and irovs, a foot : in allusion to the feathering of the tarsi. The penult here remains 

 long in Latin as it is in Greek ; but words in -opus, where the o is simply a connecting 

 vowel, shorten the penult. Lat. sancti-johannis, of Saint John, alluding to the place in 

 Newfoundland so called. 



526. A. fer-ru-gln'-g-iis. See Scolecophagus, No. 331. 



527. As-tur-i'-na pla-ga'-ta. Asturina is simply formed from Lat. astur, which see, No. 496, 



without any difference of meaning. Lat. plagata, striped, from plago, I strike ; plaga, a 

 blow, stroke, stripe ; Gr. ir\riyfi, a blow, wound, from ir\^ffff(a or TTA^TTW, I strike. Com- 

 monly written plagiata, for which we see no good reason. 



528. U-ru-bl-tm'-ga an-thra-ci'-na. Umbitinga is a barbarous word, of some South American 



dialect ; urubu means a vulture ; we do not know what the rest of the word is, nor the 

 quantity of the first two vowels ; we hear them long and leave them so. Lat. anthra- 

 cinus, Gr. a.vQp<j.Kivos, carbuncular ; #?/0pa, genitive &vdpaKos, a carbuncle ; also a live coal, 

 a coal. The application in the present case is not to a glowing coal, like a carbuncle, 

 but to a dead coal, coal-black; the glossy black of anthracite coal, as the bird is. 



529. 6-nycb/-6-tes gru'-ber-i. Gr. ow, genitive Swxos, a claw; the rest of the word is the 



regular suffix -TTJS, -tes, making the whole signify " the clawed one." Notice the accent. 

 To F. Gruber, a taxidermist of San Francisco. 



This bird is questionably North American ; but distinct from any Hawk in this list. 



530. Pan-di'-on hal-I-a-e'-tfis. Lat. Pandion, Gr. navtlcav, was the alleged father of Progne 



and Philomela : see Coues, B. Col. Vail., i, 1878, p. 371. Observe quantity and accent of 

 the penult. Gr. a\s, genitive a\6s, salt, the sea, and &r)r6$, an eagle; "sea-eagle." 

 See Haliaetus, No. 533. 



531. Thra-sy-a-e'-tfis har-pyl'-a or har-py'-I-5 [either three or four syllables; in either case 



pronounced harpwee'ah]. Gr. Bpaats, bold, audacious, and ebynfs, eagle; see No. 533. 

 Generally written Thrasaetus, as originally by Gray : but the above is preferable ; com- 

 pare Thrasyas, Thrasybulus, Thrasymachus, &c., all retaining the y (v). The "Apirvtai. 



