352 BUTEO BOREALIS, BED-TAILED BUZZARD. 



BUTEO HAELANI, "Aud." 



Harlan's Bnzzard; Black Warrior. 



Fiilco Mrlani, AuD., Om. Biog. i, 1831, 441; v, 1839, 380; pi. 86.— Nutt., Man. i, 1832, 



10.5.— Bi:kw., ed Wile. 684. 

 Buteo harlani, Aud., Syo. 1839, 6 ; B. Am. 1, 1840, pi. 8.— Bp., Consp. List, 1838, 3.— 



DeKay, N. T." Zool. ii, 1814, 11.— STRiciiL., Om. Syn. 185.n, 30.— Lawr., Ann. 



Lye. V, 220.— Cass., 111. 1854, 101 ; B. N. A. 1858, 24.— CorEs, Pr. Phila. Acad. 



1866, 45.— RiDGW., ibid. 1870, 142.— Coop., B. Cal. i, 1670, 473.-Coues, Key. 187?, 



216.— Snow, B. Kaus. 1873, — , and Am. Nat. vii, 1673, 172.— B. B. & R., N. A. 



B. iii, 1874, 292. (Not of .Bryant.) (Very likely not of Audubon.) 



Rab. — " Louisiana." " New Mexico." " California." " Kansas." 



I regard the claims of this species to validity as not yet established. 

 Both Gray and Bonaparte quote it as a synonym of B. borealis, and it 

 appears not improbable that it represents the complete melanism of 

 that species, corresponding with the '■'■ insignatus''^ style of swainsoni. 

 A further element of doubt is found in the fact that different authors 

 have used the name for different species. Thus Dr. Bryant's " harlani'" 

 is certainly sirainsoni, while the ^'■harlanV^ of some of the older New 

 England authors is almost as certainly the black state of Archibuteo 

 lagopus. 



The claim of the species to be embraced in the present work rests 

 upon the capture of a specimen near Lawrence, Kansas. On being 

 transmitted to the Smithsonian, it was pronounced by Prof. Baird and 

 jMr. Eidgway to be harlani, as understood by them. I have examined 

 this and some other specimens supposed to represent Audubon's bird, 

 and can see all the later ascribed characters, which cause rae to 

 su.spend judgment for the present, and let the bird stand on its own 

 merits, as the ditferences from any known style of boreali.s are too great 

 to be reconciled. The ^Mfeo cooperi offers much the same case; addi- 

 tional specimens, only lately received, are just like the original type, 

 and easily recognized. But Audubon's bird may be=calurus. 



'^ BUTEO BOEEALIS, (Gm.) Vieill. 

 Red-tailed Buzzard; Hen Hawk. 



a. borealis. 



Falco borealis, Gji., Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 266.— Lath., Ind. Orn. i, 1790, 25.— Daud., Tr. Orn. 

 ii, l-rOO, 157.— Shaw, Gen. Zool. yii, 112.— W its., Am. Orn. yi. 1812, 75, pi. b2, 1 1.— 

 Sabine, Frankl. Journ. 670.— Bp., Svn. 1826, 32; Isis, 1832, lloH.— Wagl., Isis, 

 1631, 517.— Nutt., Man. i, 1832, 102.— Arc, Orn. Biog. i, 1632, 265; v, 378; pi. 51. 



Buteo borealis, Vieili.., Nouv. Diet, d' Hist. Nut. iy, 1816, 478; Enc. Meth. iii, 1222.— 

 Sw. & Rich., i\ B. A. ii, 1831, 50.— Vig., Zool. Jouru. i, 340; Beech. Voy. 15.— 

 Steph., Gen. Zool. xiii, pt. ii, 47. — Les.'s., Tr. Orn. 79. — James., ed. Wils. i, 82, 

 84.— Jard., ed. Wils. ii, 260, 2^2.- Bhew., ed. Wils. 4."i0, 684.— Bp., List, 1838, 

 3; Consp. i, l8oO, 19.— AuD., Syn. 1839, 6; B. A. i, 1640, 32, pi. 7.— GossE, B. 

 Jam. 1847, 11, pi. 2.— Lemb., Av. Cnbse, 1850, 18, pi. 1.— Cass., 111. 1854, 97; Pr. 



A. N. S. 1855, 279. — WOODH., Sitgr. Rep. 1853, 59 (includes western). — PuCHER., 

 Rey. Zool. 1850, 214.— Brew., N. A. Ool. 18.57, 21.— Gamb., J. A. N. S. i, 26.— 

 DeKay, N. y. Zool. ii, 9, pi. 8, fig. 17.— Peab., Rep. Orn. Mass.— Thomps., Nat. 

 Hist. Vermont, App. 63.— Pbale, U. S. Expl. Exped. 1848, 62.— Kaup, Mus. 

 Seuck. 1845, 261.— Cass., B. N. A. Ie58, 25.— Maxim., J. f. O. vi, 1858, 17.— Bd., 

 Mex. Bound. Surv. ii, 16.59, pt. ii, Birds, p. 3. — Blak., Ibis, iii, 181)1, 318.— 

 Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. viii, 1861, 109.— Hayd . Rep. 1662, 152.— Wood, Am. 

 Nat. iii, 1869, 393.— Allen, Mem. Bost. Soc. 18()6, 499; Bull. M. C. Z. ii, 1871, 

 322 (excl. syo. partim) ; iii, 1872, 180.— RiDGW., Pr. Phila. Acad. 1870, 142.— 



B. B. & R., N. A. B. iii, 1674, 282.— .Sxow, B. Kans. 1-73.— CocES, Key, 1872, 216, 

 Astur borealis, Crv., E. A. 2d ed. i, 332.— Sw., Olassif. B, ii, 1837, 215 {"Aster"). 



