79 



Wing ? 392 mm. ; tail uniform rufous, 

 with one very narrow sub-terminal band ; 

 flanks and thighs light rufous ; juv., tail 

 barred, and flanks and thighs sparsely 

 barred with rufous. 



143g. Buteo horealis umbrinus Bangs, Pr. New S. Florida, 

 ■ Engl. Zogl. CI. ii., p. 67 (1901). [Myakka. Bahamas, 

 Manatee Co., Florida, type in M.C.Z., Cuba. 

 Harvard.] 

 Florida Red-tail. 



Size of B. botealis borealis (wing (J 376-392, 

 ? 420-430 mm. ), but darker above ; throat 

 and middle of belly with broad conspicuous 

 striping and banding of deep chocolate 

 brown ; tail feathers rufous, with broad 

 sub-terminal black band and dark brown 

 markings (remains of bands) near shaft. 



143h. Buteo borealis jamaicensis (Gmel.), S.N., i., Jamaica. 



p. 266 (1788). [Jamaica.} San Domingo,* 



Jamaica Red-tail. Porto Rico ? 



Wing (J 330-345, ? 352-373 mm. ; above 

 sooty brownish with purphsh gloss and 

 ferruginous edgings ; tail ferruginous red, 

 with sub-terminal black band ; wing quills 

 rich brown, barred with black ; below 

 white tinged buff ; throat streaked with 

 dusky, chest more thickly with ferruginous; 

 a dusky zone across abdomen ; thighs 

 barred ferruginous. 



■■ B. iropicalis Verrill is a synonym, described from an immature San Domingo 

 iird. 



