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Wing cJ 175, ? 195 mm. ; above slate or 

 rufous (rufous phase) ; tail with 3 greyish 

 white bands ; below gre5dsh white, rather 

 finely but not closely barred with greyish 

 black ; throat white, fore-neck and chest 

 rufous. 



*52. Climacocercus zonothorax Cab., J.f.O., 1865, 

 p. 406. [Porto Cabello, Venez., type in 

 Berlin Mus.] 

 Barred Harrier-Hawk. 



Colombia, 

 Venezuela. 



Wing S 178, ? 183 mm. ; above blackish 

 brown, head blacker with irregular white 

 nuchal collar ; tail blackish, with 3 narrow 

 white bands (4 in immature birds) ; below 

 thickly barred with black and white ; throat 

 white, foreneck browTi. 



53. Climacocercus gilvicollis (Vieill.), N. Diet., 

 X., p. 323 (1817). [Pair. ign. : Cayenne} 

 type in Paris Mus.] 

 White-throated Harrier-Hawk. 



Wing (J 168, ? 182 mm. ; above (male) 

 ashy bro\Mi (female blackish) ; tail blackish 

 with 3 irregular white bands (4 in imma- 

 ture ; below whitish, breast finely barred 

 with wavy blackish lines ; lower abdomen 

 white ; throat pale grey. 



Guiana & 

 Amazonia to 

 Ecuador E. 

 Peru, N.E. 

 Bolivia, and 

 10- S. lat. in 

 Brazil. 



to 



54. Climacocercus plumbeus (W. Sclat.) Bull. 

 B.O.C., xxxviii., p. 44 (1918). \Caiondelet, 

 Rio Bogota, piov. Esmeraldas, type in 

 B. M.] 

 Plumbeous Harrier-Hawk. 



N.W. Ecuador. 



Tail with only one white band ; general 

 colour greyer than in gilvicollis ; wing (J 

 (type) 178 mm. 



