456 



Faico plancm Gm. S. N. i, 1768, 257. 



VuUur plancus Lath. Iiid. Orii. i, 1790, 8. 

 FaUo hrasiVwnsis Gm. S. N. i, 1788, 263.~Max. Beitr. iii, 1830, 190. 



Folyhorus hrasiUeiisls ViG. Zool. Journ. i, 1824, 320. — Swaixs. Zool. lUnstr. ser. 2, 

 1832, pi. 2.— Gould, Zool. Beag. 1841, 9.— Bonap. Coiisp. i, 1850, 13.— Pelz. 

 Verb. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1862, 137 ; Orn. Novara, 1865, 6 (Chili) ; Orn. Bras, i, 1871, 

 293.— Schleg. Mu8. P.-B. (Polybori,) 1862, 2 (part). 

 Circaetiis brasiliensis Guy. Reg. An. 1, 1829, 328. 

 VitUnr cheriwaii, Lath. lud. Orn. i, 1790, 8 (not of Jacq., 1784). 

 Falco cheriwaij Light. Verz. Doiibl. 1823, 60. 

 Aqmla clieriway Meyen, Beitr. 1834, 66. 

 Folyhorus vulgaris Spix, Av. Bras, i, 1824, 3, pi. 1. — Vieill. Gal. Ois. i, 1825, 23, pi. 7. — 

 Less. Tr. 1831. 34.— D'Orb. Voy. Am. Merid. Zool. 1835, 55.— Tschudi, F. 

 Per. 1845, 77.— Buem. Tb. Bras, ii, 1856, 41. 

 Caracara vulgaris Less. Tr. Orn. 1831, 34. 

 Fandion caracara G. E. Gray, in Griff, ed. Oiiv. An. Kingd. vi, 1829, 235. 

 Carafard, Marcgr. Hist. Bras. 1648, 211.— Azaha,' Pax. Par. i, 1802, 42, No. 4. 

 Le Busard clu BresilBinss. Orn. i, 1760, 405. 

 Flaintive Eagle Latham, Synop. i, 34 (adult); Supp. 4. 



Rah. — Soutbern South America, north to Amazouia. Paraguay, Chili, 

 aud Patagonia, Nat. Mus. — Tierradel Fuego, Straits of Magellau, Her- 

 mit Island, Island of Mexiana, and Eio de Janeiro, Shaepe, 1. c. — Pa- 

 cific coast north to latitude 20° south, j^c?e Sharpe, 1. c. 



JDescriptions. 



Adult male (21,850, South America ; T. K. Peale). — Pileum and wings 

 brownish-black; micldle wing-coverts browner, with indistinct whitish 

 bars; primaries white in the middle (just beyond the coverts), this portion 

 having indictinct washes of grayish, in form of faintly-indicated trans- 

 verse bars; basal three-fourths of the tail white, with numerous nar- 

 row, washed bars of grayish, these becoming more faint toward the base ; 

 tail with a terminal zone of black, about two inches broad. Cheeks, 

 chin, and tliroat soiled white, unvaried ; body in general (inckiding neck, 

 breast, sides, abdomen, back, and scapulars) transversly barred with 

 black and white, the white prevailing anteriorly; beneath, the black 

 bars grow gradually wider posteriorly, giving, the tibte and femorals a 

 uniforudy blackish appearance ; on the back and scapulars also, the black 

 bars exceed the white in width, but they are very shar^jly defined, regu- 

 lar, and continuous ; rump, upper and lower tail-coverts, white, with 

 numerous faint bars of grayish. Under side of the wing black ; outer six 

 primaries white in the middle portion, beyond the coverts, this patch 

 extending obliquely across ; secondaries rather broadly barred on basal 

 two-thirds with black and white, leaving the terminal third unvaried. 

 Third quill longest; fourth scarcely shorter; second intermediate 

 between fifth and sixth; first a little longer than seventh. Wing, 16.00; 

 tail, 6.50; tarsus, 3.50; middle toe, 1.75. 



Yoimg (13,923, South America; T. R. Peale).— Forehead, crown, occi- 

 put, nape, back, wings, and lower parts dark sepia-brown ; feathers of 

 the breast, sides, and abdomen marked centrally with a broad longitu- 

 dinal stripe of soiled fulvous- white ; those of nape aud back more indis- 

 tinctly striped, and variegated irregularly at ends with the same ; wing- 

 coverts passing terminally into pale brownish ; secondaries obscurely 

 barred with the same. Cheeks, chin, and throat unvariegated soiled 

 white ; tibial feathers with shaft-stripes of pale fulvous. Eump, tail- 

 coverts, and tail as in adult. 



EemarTis. 



Several specimens from Buenos Ayres (Conchitas ; Wm. H. Hudson) 

 and one from Paraguay (59,236 ; T. J. Page, U. S. N.) have the black 



