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Range. — Lower Sonoran Zone from middle Texas south to southern Mexico 

 (both coasts). 



Subgenus BUTEOLA Bonaparte. 



Buteola Bonapahtb, Comptes Rendus, XLI, 1855, 651. Type, by 

 orig. desig., Buteo brachyurus Vieillot. 



Buteo brachyiirus Vieillot. Short-tailed Hawk. [344.] 



Buteo brachyurus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., IV, 1816, 477. 

 (Cayenne?.) 



Range. — Florida, eastern Mexico, and central America south to 

 Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil. 



Genus URUBITINGA Lafresnaye. 



Urvbitinga Lapresnate, Diet. Univ. Hist. Nat., II, 1843, 786. Type, by 

 tautonymy, " L'Aigle-Autour Urubitinga de Cuvier" = Falco urubi- 

 tinga Gmelin. 



Urubitinga anthr^cina (Lichtenstein). Mexican Black Hawk. [345.] 



Fako anthracinus Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz.. . .Vogel. .. .Mexico, etc., 

 1830, 3. (Mexico.) 



Range. — Lower Sonoran Zone in southern Arizona, and lower Rio 

 Grande Valley south through Mexico and Central America to Peru 

 and British Guiana. 



Genus ASTTTRINA Vieillot. 



Asturina Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 24. Type, by monotypy, Asturina 

 dnerea Vieillot = Falco nitidus Latham. 



Asturina plagi&ta Schlegel. Mexican Goshawk. [346.] 



Asturina plagiata Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, I, Asturinae, 1862, 1. (City 

 of Vera Cruz, Vera Cruz, Mexico.) 



Range. — Southern Arizona and lower Rio Grande Valley south to 

 Costa Rica; winters south of the United States; accidental in southern 

 Illinois. 



