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and barred with blackish brown ; the inner secondaries are like the back 

 in color ; the tips of all the quills narrowly fulvous. 



Lower parts : Chin and throat as described ; the body and sides dark 

 brown, each feather with a narrow, definite, fulvous, or pale cinnamon edge, 

 the whole having a striped appearance ; the thighs, feathered part of the 

 legs and under tail-coverts bright chestnut or cinnamon, the tail-coverts 

 spotted with dull buff. 



Bill : Dark brown horn ; cere dull bluish green. 



Feet: Bright yellow. 



Iris brown. 



Geographical Range. All eastern South America, from the coast to the 

 Cordillera, and from Venezuela to the Straits of Magellan ; probably the 

 northern parts of Tierra del Fuego. 



This harrier was not obtained or observed by the naturalists of the 

 Princeton Expeditions. It appears to be much less common than Circus 

 cincrcns, and but little has been written as to its habits. These do not vary 

 greatly from those of its congener, according to Hudson and other field 

 workers who have become acquainted with the bird. 



Genus ACCI PITER Brisson. 



Type. 

 Accipiter, Briss. Orn. i. p. 310 (1760); Sharpc, Cat Bds. 



Brit. Mus. i. p. 130 (1874); Sharpe, Hand-list Bds. i. 



p. 252 (1899) * ....... A. nisus. 



Nisus, Cuv. Lemons Anat. Comp. i. tabl. Ois. (1799). . . A. nisus. 



lerax, Leach, Syst Cat Mamm. &c. Brit Mus. p. 10 (1816). A. nisus. 



Hieraspiza, Kaup, Class. Saug. u. Vog. p. 116(1844) . . A. virgatus. 



Cooperastur, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 538 . . A. nisus. 



Teraspiza, Kaup, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 171 A. virgatus. 



Geographical Range. World-wide, but absent from Oceania, west 

 Australia and New Guinea. 



ACCIPITER CHILENSIS Philippi & Landbach. 



Accipiter chilensis, Phil. & Landb. Arch. fur. Naturg. 1864, p. 43; Scl. P. 

 Z. S. 1867, p. 329; id. & Salv. Exot. Orn. pp. 73, 170, pi. xxxvii 

 (1867); iid. Ibis, 1868, p. 188 (Sandy Point, Feb.); Phil. & Landb. 

 Cat Av. Chil. p. 5 (1868); Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Ncotr. p. 120 

 (1873: Patagonia); Sharpe, Cat B. Brit Mus. I. p. 155 (1874: Straits 



