79 
Wing 2 392 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 borealis umbrinus Bangs, Pr. New S. Florida, 
Engl. Zool. Cl. ii., p. 67 (1901). (Myakka, Bahamas, 
Manatee Co., Florida, type in M.C.Z., Cuba. 
Harvard. ] 
Florida Red-tail. 
Size of B. borealis borealis (wing 3 376-392, 
2 420-430 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.,1., Jamaica. 
p. 266 (1788). [Jamaica.} San Domingo 4 
Jamaica Red-tail. Porto Rico? 
Wing 3¢ 330-345, 2 352-373 mm. ; above 
sooty brownish with purplish 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. 
1 B. tropicalis Verrill is a synonym, described from an immature San Domingo 
bird. 
