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Gen. XXXIV. BUTEOLA Bp. 1855). 

 Type by orig. desig. Buteo brachyurus Vieill. 



Nostrils round, with distinct central tubercle ; 

 wing with 3 outer primaries emarginate on inner 

 webs, the fourth sinuate. 



''tl54. Buteola brachyura (Vieill.), N. Diet. d'Hist., 

 Nat. iv., p. 477 (1816). [Cayenne.] 

 Short-tailed Buzzard. 



Size moderate ; wing <? 290-298, ? 316-335 

 mm. ; above slaty-black ; tail ashy-brown, 

 tipped with whitish and with 4 broad bands 

 of black ; sides of face and under surface 

 of body white, the sides of chest black 

 (immature buff below and with 9 dark bars 

 on tail) ; melanistic variety [B. fuliginosa, 

 Scl.], general plumage sooty-black ; tail 

 brown with 8 blackish bands. 



Brazil, Bolivia 

 Peru, Guiana, 

 Venezuela, 

 N. to Central 

 America and 

 Florida. 



Gen. XXXV. ASTURINA Vieill. (1816). 

 Type by monotypy A. cinerea VieiU. = Fulco nitidus Lath. 



Tibiae long ; feet large and powerful ; nostrils 

 round, with indistinct and concealed tubercle at 

 base of upper margin. Size medium (length 

 16-18 in.). 



*155. Asturina nitida nitida (Lath.), Ind. Orn., i., 

 p. 41 (1790) [Cayenne.'] 

 Shining Buzzard-Hawk. 



Wing $ 242-245, $ 260-265 mm. ; ^ ? above 

 ashy grey, barred with silvery white, most 

 narrowly on the head and nape, bars be- 

 coming duller and broader on wings ; upper 

 tail-coverts blackish, tipped with white ; 

 tail blackish with a broad white band about 

 one-third of distance from tip and a second 



S.E. Brazil, 



Amazonia, 



Ecuador, 



Guiana, 



Colombia. 



