44 



136e 



136f. 



130ff, 



Cape Verd 

 Islands. 



barred with brown ; thighs dark broAvn, 

 slightly barred with rufous ; feet smaller and 

 slighter. 



BiUeo biiteo bannermani. subsp. nov. [$ Near 

 Mindello Bay, St. Vincent. Cape Verd Is. Sept . 

 26, 1913, in Coll. B. M. No. 1919. 8. 15. 148.J 

 Cape Verd Buzzard. 



Size of but more rufou.s than B. hutc.o hulco; 

 more heavily marked below ; abdomen and 

 imder tail-coverts white barred transversely 

 with rufous brown ; tail distinctly barred and 

 with a rufous tinge ; wing(^ 14.32, tail 8.25 in. 

 Biiteo buteo zimmermannca, Ehmcke, J.f .0. E. Europe : 

 1893, p. 117. {Kreis Gumbinnen, E. Prussia.] E. Prussia 

 Rufous Buzzard. & W. & C. 



Russia, N. 

 to Arcli- 

 angel, S. 

 to Balkans, 

 W. casual h^ 

 to Holland, 

 Brit. Is- 

 lands (*) 

 France and 

 Italy. 

 Tarsus feathered alx)ut half-way down in 

 front ; plumage above purplish brown, with 

 rufescent margins ; tail Avitli 4 or 5 indistinct 

 darker bars ; beloAv rufous, abdomen buffy- 

 white, barred with rufous (younger birds 

 buffy-white below, streaked on breast and 

 blotched on abdomen with dark brown.) 

 Buteo buteo japonicus (Temm, et Schl.) in 

 Siebold's Fauna Jap. Aves., p. 16. [pi. vi, 

 vi"] (1844). [Japan.] [=-S. plumipies. 

 (Hodgs.)] 

 Japanese Buzzard. 



Tail more definitely red in old birds, with 

 most of the bars obsolete. 

 Smaller : wing ^ 13.40-14.50, tail 7-8, tarsus 

 3 in., $ wing about 15 in. ; above brown 



* There are eight rufous Brit, birds in t]ie Brit. Mus. collection, two of 

 which seem referable to B. rufiventcr and tlu^ rest to this form, while there is 

 another example in Brighton Muf . from tlie Monk coll., lal)elled " England." 

 Devonshire birds are, however, often almost as rufous as those from 

 E. Europe. 



Japan, China 



Corea, 



Manchuria, 



Turkestan, 



Punjab to 



Burma. 



B. 



