The identity of Azara’s description No. 18 “Gavilán mixto pintado” is a juvenile Harris’s hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus )
Published Online: Apr 30, 2021
Page range: 77 - 80
Received: Jun 11, 2020
Accepted: Aug 04, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/srj-2020-0001
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The classic ornithological work by Félix de Azara “Apuntamientos para la historia natural de los páxaros del Paraguay y Rio de la Plata” was one of the first descriptive texts dealing with the avifauna of the Southern Cone of South America. Azarays No. 18 vGavilán mixto pintadow has long been misidentified as a juvenile great black hawk (