ARCHIBUTEO. 95 



lAneatus = striped, marked with linea, linea = a thread of flax, linum, and 

 thence a line ; from the streaked upper plumage. 



One is said {' Ibis/ 1865, p. 549) to have been killed in 

 Invernesshire in 1863 ; but the record is probably due to the 

 mistake of a dealer. It inhabits North America^ wintering 

 as far south as Texas.] 



Genus ARCHIBUTEO, C. L. Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1269. 



ArcMbuteo, from apxh like the English "arch" in archbishop, and buteo = 

 a Buzzard, q. v. 



ArcMbuteo lagopus. Rough-legged Buzzard. 

 Falco lagopus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 260 (1788). 

 Falco lagopus, Naum, i. p. 359. 



Buteo lagopus, Macg. iii. p. 193; Hewitson, p. 39; Yarr. 

 ed. 2, i. p. 87 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 94 ; Newton, i. p. 115 ; 

 Harting, p. 6. 

 Archibuteo lagopus. Gray, p. 8; Gould, i. pi. 7 ; Dresser, v. 



p. 471. 

 The Rough-legged Buzzard, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 81. 



Lagopus = Xaywjrows, rough-footed like a hare ; from Xayuit + jrotis. 



Inhabits the northern parts of Europe and Western Asia ; 

 an irregular visitant to Great Britain, usually in autumn and 

 winter ; rarer in Ireland. 



[Archibuteti sancti-johannis. Black Buzzabd. 

 Falco S. Johannis, Gme^m, Syst. Nat. i. p. 273 (1788). 



Sancti-johannis = of St. John, British North America, whence specimens 

 were first obtained. 



The Rev. Murray A. Mathew ('Zoologist,' 1876, pp. 4814, 

 4870) recorded a specimen from North Devonshire ; but it 

 proved (/. c. p. 4901) to be merely a dark variety of Archibuteo 

 lagopus. The species inhabits the whole of North America.] 



