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portance. In the specimen in question, the occiput is very distinctly 

 striped with black, instead of being narrowly streaked, or even im- 

 maculate. 



List of specimens examined. — In mus. Pliilad. Acad., 4 ; Boston Soc, 2 ; total, 6. 



LEUCOPTERNIS MELANOPS. 



Falco mclanops Lath. Ind. Orn. 1790, 37 ; Gun. Hist, i, 248.— Daud. Tr. Orn. ii, 117.— 



Shaw, ZooI. vii, 175.— Tkmm. PI. Col. i, 1824, 105. 

 Dcvdaiion melanops ViG. Zool. J. i, 1824, :3:{8. — Steph. Zool. xiii, pt. 2, 25. 

 Jstar melanops Less. Man. i, 1828, 94. — Cuv. Kfeg. An. ed. 2, i, 333. 

 JJtileo melanops Gray, Gen. fol. 1849, 12, sp. 14 ; List B. Brit. Mns. 37 ; Hand List, 1, 



18(59, 8.— Sthickl. Orn. Syu. i, 1855, 3fi. 

 Leucopternis melanops Kaup, tsis, 1847,210; Contr. Orn. 1850, 63. — Boxap. Consp. 



i, 1850, 19.— Pelz. Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien, 1862, 140 ; Orn. Bras. 1871, 



3, 395.— SCL. & Salv. Ex. Ora. 1868, 122; Norn. Av. Neotrop. 1873, 119.— 



Salv. Ibis, 1872, 242. 

 Bnteo (^Leucopternis) melanops Eidgw. Pr. Boston Soc. N. H. 1873, 63. , 



Asturina melanops Sciil., Mns. Pays-Baa, Asturinaj, 1862, 10. 

 CTritUtinga melanops Siiakpe, Cat. Ace. B. M. 1874, 220. 



Hah. — Amazonia, including Guiana; Brazil (Sharps). 



Wing, 8.30-9.10; tail, 6.00-G.50; cuhuen, 0.75-0.8(3 ; tarsus, 2.00-2.6.5; 

 middle toe, 1.25-1.35. Inner webs of only four outer primaries distinctly 

 emarginated ; third or fourth quill longest; first shortest. Adult: — 

 Head, neck, and entire lower parts white — this sometimes with, a beau- 

 tiful salmon-pink tinge (especially under the wing) ; lores, eyelids, and 

 stripe behind the eye black ; pileum and nape streaked with black. 

 Upper parts black, the scapulars much spotted with white. Tail black, 

 narrowly tipped with white, and crossed at about one third the distance 

 from the end by a broad zone of pure white. 



List of specimens examined. — In mns. Philad. Acad., 3; Boston Soc, 1 ; total, 4. 



LEUCOPTEPviSTIS KAUPI. 



f Leucopternis huMi Bonap. Consp. Av. i, 1850, 19. 

 Buieoltihlii Gray, Hand List, i, 1869,8. 



Buteo (Leucopternis) kuhlii Ridgw. Pr. Boston Soc. N. H. 1873, 64. 

 Leucopternis Jcaupi Boxap. Rev. Zool. 1850, 481. 

 Iluteo Icanpi Strickl. Orn. Syn. i, 18.55, 37. 

 Fruhitinga kaupi Sharpe, Cat. Acc. Brit. Mns. 1874,219. 

 Leucopternis superciliaris Fki.j.kl^, Sitz. Akad. Wien, xliv, 1861, 10; Verb. z.-b. Ges. 

 Wien, 1862, 140 : Ueb. Falk. 1862, 7 (Brazil) ; Oru. Bras. 1871, 3, 395— ScL. «fc 

 Salv. P. Z. S. 1867,589; Ex. Orn. pt. v, 1867, pi. xxxviii ; pt. viii, 1863, 122; 

 Norn. Neotr. 1873, 119.— Salv. Ibis 1872,242. 

 Asturina superciliaris Schleg. Mns. Pays Bas, Asturina?., 1862, 12. 



Kal). — Amazonia, and "Brazil, in the vicinity of Para" (Sharpe). 



Wing, 8.40-8.70 ; tail, 5.30-6.20 ; culmen, 0.80-0.85 ; tarsus, 2.10-2.40 ; 

 middle toe, 1.25-1.30. Fourth to fifth quills longest ; first shortest. 

 Adult: — Above dark slate; the nape, and sometimes the pileum, 

 streaked with white. Beneath entirely white; the sides of the neck and 

 breast streaked with black. Tail dark slate, faintly whitish at the tip, 

 and crossed a little beyond the middle by a narrow zone of white. 



List of specimens examined. — la mus. Pliilad. Acad., 2; Boston Soc, 1; total, 3. 



LEUCOPTERNIS SEMIPLUMBEUS. 



Leucopternis semiplunibcus Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Lye. vii, 1861, 288; ih. ix. 183S, 133. — 

 ScL. & Salv. Ex." Oru. 1808,121, pi. Ixi; Norn. Neotrop. 1869, 119.— Salv. 

 Ibis, 1872, 243. 

 Iiutcosemiplumr)eus Gray, Hand List, i, 1869, 9. 

 Urubitinga semiplumbea Shaupe, Cat. Acc. B. M. 1874, 220. 



Wing, 7.20-8.70; tail, 5.00-7.80; culmen, 0.70-0.85; tarsus, 2.20-2.45 ; 



