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and irregularly barred with dark brown ; 

 under surface of tail and tips of primaries 

 whitish. 



Gen. XXIX. MEGATRIORCHIS Salvad. & D'Alb. (1875) 

 Type by orig. desig. M. dories Salvad. & D'Alb. 



Wings' short, sUghtly longer than tail ; tail long, 

 rounded ; inner toe shorter than outer. 



127. Megatriorchis dorice Salvad. & D'Alb., S.E. New 

 Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vii., p. 805 (1875). Guinea. 

 [Yule Island.'] 

 Doria's Buzzard-Hawk. 



Wing ad. (sexes ?), 290-325 mm. ; plumage 

 above brownish black, with rufescent 

 margins ; below white, spotted longitudin- 

 ally with brown ; wings and tail above 

 banded alternately with brownish-black 

 and pale greyish-brown. 



Gen XXX. HETEROSPIZIAS Sharpe (1874). 

 Type by monotypy Falco meridionalis Lath. 



Nostrils round, with large tubercular process ; 

 wings reaching up to or beyond tail ; tail about 

 twice equal to tarsus. 



*128. Heterospizias meridionalis meridionalis S. America 



(Lath.), Ind. Orn., 1., p. 36 (1790). (Panama and 

 [Cayenne.] Colombia to 



Red- winged Hawk. S.E. Brazil, 



Bolivia and 

 Size of Buteo ; wing 3 386-404, ? 393-417 Paraguay), 

 mm. ; head and shoulders rufous ; mantle 

 and scapulars pale slate grey with rufous ^ 



margins ; rump and tail purplish black, tail 

 with a medium white bar and white tips ; 

 below rufous with narrow nearly obsolete 

 black bars. 



