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Much snuiller : wing 14. oU, tail 8.2, tarsus 

 2.7 in. 

 138a. Biiteo ferox cirtensis (Levaill). Expl. Sci. 

 de I'Alger., pi. 3 (1850). [Algeria.] 

 Alserian Buzzard. 



N.W. and 

 N. Africa, 

 (Morocco, 

 Algeria, 

 Tunis), 

 Spain (ace. ?) 



Length q 21, wing 17, tail 8, tarsus 3.30 in. ; 

 9 length 23, wing 18 in. ; general plumage 

 sooty or brownish-black ; lower breast 

 chestnut ; abdomen more or less barred 

 with white and chestnut ; primaries 

 externally ashy, secondaries whitish, both 

 barred with black ; tail chestnut red, with 

 black sub-terminal band ; younger birds have 

 under parts rufous, excepting throat. 

 130. BiUeojakal (Daud.), Traite, ii., p. 161 (1800). 8. Africa. 

 {Cape of Good Hope, ex Le Vaillant.] 

 Jackal Buzzard. 



139a. Buteo jakal archeri W. 8cl., Bull. B.O.C., Somaliland. 

 xxxix., p. 17 (1918). 



Size similar ; tail less chestnut, more tawny ; 

 loAver parts black in old birds ; in younger 

 chiefl}^ Avhite. excepting the throat which is 

 more or less black. 



140. i?itteoait{/Mr Rtlpp., Neue Wirb. Vog., p. 38, pi. N.E. Africa, 

 16 (1835). [Abyssinia.] ""Equatorial 

 Augur Buzzard. Africa." 



General phnnage of r^ dusky blackish, the 

 feathers of back and wings margined Avith 

 brown ; sides of head and cervical collar 

 varied Avith rufous ; forehead, nape s]wt 

 and throat Avhite ; breast as upper parts ; 

 abdomen and flanks white spotted and 

 streaked with black ; tail rufous with stib- 

 terminal black band. 



141. Buteo auguralis Salvad., Att. Soc. Ital. Sc. W. Africa to 

 Nat., viii., p. 377 (1865). [Ab>/ssinia.] N.E. Africa. 

 iSalvadori's Buzzard. 



Size variable ; average length, (j^ 21. wing 15.50 

 in. ; $ 24, wing 17.50 in. ; above blackish- 

 brown with more or less of lighter variegation ; 

 tail chestnut Avith one sub-terminal darker 

 l)and and often remains of others ; beloAv 

 Iniffy-Avhite, flanks barred or mottled and ab- 

 domen hcaA'ily streaked AA'ith black ish-broAvn. 



