366 Mr. J. 11. (jurney's Nolts on 



sioii, I pass on to the consideration of Buteo desertoruniy 

 respecting \vliicli_, however, I have but little to add to my 

 remarks in 'The Ibis' for 1862, p. 361. 



In the case of this species, as in that of B. vulgaris, a very 

 full article has lately appeared from the pen of ]Mr, Dresser 

 in the ' Birds of Europe,'' in Avhich he gives more ample de- 

 tails as to the measurements, variations of plumage, and geo- 

 gi*aphical range of this Buzzard than can be looked for in 

 the briefer summary comprised in Mr. Sharpens work. In 

 this article Mr. Dresser mentions the fact of his haviug re- 

 ceived a specimen of B. desertorum from the remarkably 

 northern locality of Archangel ; and since its publication he 

 has seen a second example, which was also obtained in that 

 vicinity. 



In Mr. Dresser's article on B. vulgaris he remarks that 

 subsequently to the publication of his account of B. deser- 

 torum he had examined the Buzzards obtained by Mr. God- 

 man in the Azores, and had "■ ascertained that they were not, 

 as was supposed, B. vulgaris, but B. desertorum"'^, 



Mr. Gould, in the introduction to his magnificent work on 

 the birds of Great Britain, refers to a Buzzard of this species 

 which was killed at Everley, Wiltshire, in September 1864. 

 This specimen Mr. Gould kindly permitted me to examine, 

 when it was in his custody, some years since ; and there ap- 

 peared to me to be no doubt of its being really B. desertorum 

 in immature plumage. 



I may add that Mr. Gould, in his remarks upon this species, 

 says, " it is included by Schlegel in his ' Fauna Japonica,' " 

 whicli conveys the idea that it had been received from Japan ; 

 but this is a misapprehension : the authors of the ' Fauna 

 Japonica' give, at page 16 of their volume " Aves," a list of 

 Blizzards which they consider to be nearly allied to Buteo 

 japonicus ; and it is merely in this list and as one of these 



species that they mention " la buse commune du Cap 



espece que nous designerons sous le nom de Buteo capensis." 



Mr. Sharpe states that B. desertorum "gradually gets 

 darker with age;'' but haviug had the opportunity of watch- 

 * Cotif. Ibis, l6(Hi, p. Oi. 



