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the Black Sea. Eastwards from the Ural Mountains the 

 African Buzzard is distributed as far as Semirechje, being 

 found breeding near Wernoje and near the Issyk-kul, where 

 it meets with the Japanese Buzzard. 



The African Buzzard is found in the Crimea and near 

 Gurjev only on migration. 



BUTEO FEROX. 



The breeding-range of the Long-tailed Buzzard in Russia 

 is still insufficiently known. It is a common breeding bird 

 in the steppes near the Caspian Sea; but its northern and 

 western breeding-limits are unknown. Mr. Severtzov has 

 been told that in the country between the Ural and Flek 

 rivers Archibuteo lagopus breeds ; but Mr. Severtzov thinks 

 that it is Buteo ferox which breeds there, whilst Archibuteo 

 lagopus only visits that country during its winter migration. 

 Mr. Sabaneev supposes that Archihnteo lagopus breeds in 

 the district of Shadrinsk but this is probably a mistake. 

 According to Mr. Henke the Long-tailed Buzzard is rare in 

 the steppes between the Ural river and the Lower Volga, but 

 is common west of the Volga. Mr. Severtzov obtained a spe- 

 cimen of this Buzzard in the steppe near the Biting river on 

 autumn migration ; and I have seen a specimen of it obtained j 

 December 1854 in the Crimea (Tamak), w^iich is preserved 

 in the Zoological Museum of Moscow. In Paris, in the ex- 

 cellent collection of Mr. Alleon, I saw three specimens of 

 this bird obtained by that gentlemen in the Dobrudscha 

 (?j| 1882, ?i 1882, ? I 1882), and a fourth from the 

 neighbourhood of Constantinople (|^ 1874). From these 

 circumstances we infer that it is very possible that the Long- 

 tailed Buzzard breeds in some parts of the steppes of Southern 

 Russia west of the Don. 



Archibuteo lagopus. 



The principal breeding-ground of the Rough-legged Buz- 

 zard is on the tundras beyond the wooded region, where only 

 cover of birch and willow is to be found ; but it is also a 

 local breeding bird more to the south. 



