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uniform below, blackish-brown to rufous- 

 brown, the abdomen barred ; tail with 10 

 or 12 darker bars and with or without 

 rufous tinge. 



137c. Biitco hitteo rothschildi, Swann, Syn. List Azores. 

 Accip., p. 43 (1919). \Terceira, Azores, 

 type in Brit. Mus.] 

 Azores Buzzard. 



Smaller ; wing S 340-357 ; $ 372-386 mm. ; 

 rufous form, but tail generally Hght ashy, 

 with 7-9 bars, the sub-terminal broad, more 

 or less tinged with rufous ; below with 

 belly either uniform deep rufous or barred 

 and mottled with bufhsh- white. 



137d. Biiteo buteo insularum Floericke, Mitteil. Canary Isles. 

 Oesterr. Reichsb., iii., p. 64 (1903). [Gran 

 Canaria.] 

 Canary Isles Buzzard. 



Wing ? 390-398, S (juv.) 350 mm. ; rufous 

 form ; chest and abdomen rufous brown ; 

 tail brown slightly tinged with rufous and 

 with the darker bars nearly obsolete in very 

 old bird, about 5 being apparent ; younger 

 birds have about 10 distinct bars. 



137e. Buteo buteo hannerniani, Swann, Syn. List Cape Verd 

 Accip., p. 44 (1919). [? Near Mindello Islands. 

 Bay, St. Vincent, Cape Verd Is., type in 

 Coll. B. M.] 

 Cape Verd Buzzard. 



Wing S 342, ? 370-380 mm. ; paler and less 

 rufous than three preceding forms ; above 

 ashy-brown, with paler margins to the 

 feathers ; tail with 9 dai ker bars ; below : 

 throat w^hite, streaked with dusky-brown ; 



