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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. 
*1154. Buteola brachyura (Vieill.), N. Dict. d’Hist., 
Nat. iv., p. 477 (1816). [Cayenne.] 
Short-tailed Buzzard. 
Size moderate ; wing g 290-298, 2 316-335 
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 Vieill. = Fulco mtidus Lath. 
Tibiz 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 mitida mitida (Lath.), Ind. Orn.,i., 
p- 41 (1790) [Cayenne.] 
Shining Buzzard-Hawk. 
Wing ¢ 242-245, 9 260-265 mm. ; ¢ 2 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. 
