27. BtTTEO. 179 



o. Ad. St. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



Type of £. aquilinus, 

 p, q. Ad. sk. India {Dr. Jerdon). J. Gould, Esq. fP.J. 



r. Ad. sk. India. J. Gould, Esq. [P.J. 



«. Ad. sk. Mussoorie Hills. Major Godwin- Austen. 



t. Skeleton. Purchased. 



8. Buteo desertorum. 



Le Rougri, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 77, pi. 17 (1799). 



Falco desertorum, Dmid. Traiti, ii. p. 164 (1800). 



Buteo desertorum, Vieill. N. Diet, d' Hist. Nat. iv. p. 478 (1816) ; 



aurnmj, Ibis, 1862, p. 361; Sckl. Mtis. P.-B. Buteones, p. 5 (1862); 



Deffl. ^ Gerbe, Orn. Europ. i. p. 65 (1867) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. 



p. 9 (1867); Heuc/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 90 (1869); Grai/, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 6 (1869)"; Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 268 (1870); Jerd. 



Ibis, 1871, p. 3.38; Shelley, B. of Egypt, p. 201 (1872) ; Anderss. 



B. Dam. Ld. p. 12 (1872) ; Shelley and Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 292 ; 



Schl. Revue Accipitr. p. 106 (1873). 

 Buteo rufiventer, Jerd. III. Ind. Orn. pi. 27 (1847). 

 Buteo cirtensis, Levaill., Jun., Expl. Sci. de VAlgerie, pi. 3 (1850). 

 Buteo capensis, Temm. i^ Schl. Faun. Jap.,Aves, p. 16 (1850) ; Crray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 7 (1869). 

 Buteo tachardus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 18 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 2 (1857). 

 Buteo vulpinus, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 3 (1854). 

 Buteo minor, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 5 (1856). 

 Buteo vulgaris, var. capensis, Pelz. Verh. z.-b. Wien, 1862, p. 144. 

 Buteo vulgaris, Jerdon, B. Ind. i. p. 87 (1862). 

 Buteo delalandi, Des Micrs, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1863, p. 52. 

 Falco tachardus, Bree, B. Eur. i. p. 97 (1866). 

 Buteo cirtensis, Locke, E.vpl. Sci. Alger, i. p. 44 (1867). 

 Buteo rufinus, Taczan. J.f. O. 1870, p. 37. 

 Buteo ferox, Heugl. torn. cit. p. 384. 



Immature. Above diill brown, the new feathers on the back and 

 neck being deep sepia-brown with rufous edges; the upper tail- 

 coverts also mottled with rufous near the base ; crown paler brown ; 

 lores whitish ; sides of face and of neck tawny rufous, with narrow 

 black centres ; under surface of body pure white ; the throat nar- 

 rowly lined with rufous ; the breast thickly spotted with rufous 

 brown, becoming duUer brown on the belly and flanks, which are 

 more sparingly marked ; the thighs merely spotted here and there ; 

 under wing-coverts white, with a few narrow streaks of dark brown ; 

 quills brown, barred with darker brown, the inner lining white for 

 the greater part of their extent ; the primaries externally pale ashy 

 near the base ; tail duU rufous, the extreme base white, all the 

 feathers mottled with dark brown, collecting near the end of the 

 tail, which is usually uniform dark brown. Total length 20 inches, 

 culmen 1-35, wing 13-5, tail 7-6, tarsus 2-9, bare part of same in 

 front to root of middle toe 1-5. 



Adult. Above brown, the feathers conspicuously margined with ru- 

 fous, except on the lower back and rump ; the head and neck entirely 

 tawny rufous, the feathers narrowly streaked down the centre with 

 dark brown ; sides of face whitish, washed with rufous and narrowly 

 shafted with dark brown ; under surface of body tawny rufous, some 



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