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Wing ad. 296 mm. ; general colour lead 

 grey, the primaries blackish ; tail black in 

 adult, in younger birds with 2 or more 

 bands of white ; cere, lores, gape and feet 

 orange yellow ; bill black ; iris red. 



Gen. LXXVII. CHONDROHIERAX Less. (1843). 



Type by monotypy Dcedalion erythropus Less. =Falco uncinatus 



lUiger. 

 [ =Regerhinus Kaup.] 



Tail rounded, outer feather shorter than middle 

 one ; loral space bare ; upper mandible without a 

 tooth. Size moderate, length under 18 in. 



*253. Chondohierax uncinatus (Illiger) in Temm., 

 PI. Col., i., hvr. 18, pi. 103, 104, 115 (1824). 

 [Brazil =Rio Janeiro, apud Chubb, type in 

 Leyd. Mus.] 

 Hook-billed Kite. 



Wing c? 272-276, ? 290, tail 190 mm. ; 

 above and below bluish slate, with narrow 

 irregular bars of white below in less mature 

 birds ; primaries blackish shaded with slate 

 grey ; secondaries whitish below, barred 

 and tipped with black ; tail ashy grey with 

 2 bands of black ; under tail-coverts buff ; 

 bill black. First mature plumage generally 

 browner, with a rufous collar round hind 

 neck ; below banded with tawny rufous 

 and ochraceous buff. 



Guiana, 

 Venezuela, 

 Ecuador, Brazil, 

 Bohvia ; 

 Trinidad, 

 Grenada ; 

 Centr. Amer. to 

 Yucatan. 



254. Chondrohierax megarhynchus (Des Murs), E. Peru, Andes 



in Casteln., Voy., Ois., p. 9, pi. i. (1855). of Venezuela; 



[Sarayacu, type in Paris Mus.] Bohvia. 

 Large-billed Kite. 



Larger (wing c? 285, ? 304-318 mm.) and 

 with a larger bill (culmen 50-64 mm. against 

 40-43 mm. in typical form.) 



