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FALCOXID^lI. 



Buteo ferox (-S*. G. Gm.). 



Falco ferox, Thien. Fortpjianz. ges. Vof/. tab. ic. iig:, 17 (1845-54). 



Buteo leucurus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Voy. Xoh. 2. fig: 2 (1855-63). 



I5uteo ferox, Tristram, Ibis, 1865, p. 255; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. \. 

 p. 176 (1874) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 463 (1875) ; Bree, Birds 

 Eur. 2nd ed. i. p. 117, pi. — (1875) ; Danford, Ibis, 1878, p. 5 : 

 Oates ed. Hmne, Nests l^- Egys Ind. B. iii. p. 125 (1890) ; Blanf. 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 390 (1895) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 255 

 (1899). 

 The eggs of the Long-legged Buzzard are not separable from tliose 



of the Common Buzzard {B. buteo) described below. They measure 



from 2-2 to 2-5 in length, and from 1-7 to 1-95 in breadth. 



R. Volga. 



R. Volga. 



R. Volga. 



R. Volga. 



R. Volga. 



R. Volga. 



Sarepta, R. Volga. 



Sarepta (Dr. Stader). 



Smyrna, 27th March (T. Kriipir). 



Smyrna, 12tli April. 



Smyrna, 16th April. 



Taurus, Asia Minor, 1st May {€'. 



G. Danford). 

 Taurus, Asia Minor, 7th May {C. 



G. D.). 

 Keda, Palestine, 1st May (//. 11. 



Tristram). 

 Rabbath Amnion, Palestine, 2nil Mav 



(H. B. T.) 

 Mount Car:i;el. Ptilestiue, 22ud 



March (H. B. 7'.). 

 Russahir, Himalayas, 1st March. 



Seebohm CoU. 

 Seehohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Old Collection. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Ch-owley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Ilume Coll. 



Buteo desertorum {Baud.). 



Buteo tachardus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Viiy. tab. 73. fig. 3 (1855-63) ; 



Sakin, Ibis, 1859, p. 183. 

 Falco tachardus, Bree, Birds Eur. i. p. 97, pi. — (1866). 

 Buteo desertorum, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 179 (1874) ; Bree, Birds 



Eur. 2nd ed. i. p. 121, pi. — n875) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 457 



(1875) ; Koeniy, J. f. O. 1806, p. 216, tab. vi. fig. 1 ; S/iarpe, Hand-l. 



i. p. 255(1899). 



The eggs of the African Buzzard are undistinguishable in colour 

 from those of B. ferox and B. buteo. Their average size is, however, 

 somewhat smaller, the length varying from 1-95 to 2-32, and the 

 breadth from 1-6 to 1-8. 



2. Dobrudscha. 



3. Sarepta, S. Russia. 



1 . Khitan M'Sakta, Algeria, 24f h April 

 (O. Salvin). 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



