75 



rufous, whitish at base and shafts white, 

 with 2 or 3 definite bars tow^ards tip and 

 remains of others ; uniform dark under 

 parts of some birds probably a dark phase 

 or erythrism rather than age ; also subject 

 to melanism ; immature huffish white 

 below blotched and streaked with dark 

 rufous brown ; tail ashy with darker bars. 



fl39a. Biiteo fcrox cirtensis (Levaill., jun.). 

 Sci. de r Alger., pi. 3 [not textl, 

 {Algeria. \ 

 Algerian Buzzard. 



Expl. 

 ;i850). 



208, 



Much smaller ; wing <^ 365.75, tail 

 tarsus 68 mm. ; wing ? 380-400 mm. ; 

 above brown with rufous or pale edgings ; 

 below buff with shaftlines of dark brown ; 

 belly and flanks washed with rufous ; thighs 

 rufous ; tail pale rufous, without terminal 

 or other bars. 



N. Africa, 

 (Marocco, 

 Algeria, 

 Tunisia) ; 

 winter. 



S. in 



jl40. Biiteo riifofuscus rufofiiscus (Forst.) Natur- 

 gesch. African. Vogel, p. 59, pi. 16 (1798). 

 [5. Africa, ex Levaillant.] 

 [ =B. jakal (Baud.)] 

 Jackal Buzzard. 



S. Africa, S. of 

 the Limpopo. 



Wing c^ 400-430, tail 180-204, tarsus 85 

 mm. ; wing ? 455 mm. ; above and throat 

 and chest brownish black ; interscapulary 

 feathers mostly white, varied with pale 

 rufous ; primaries externally ashy, second- 

 aries whitish, both barred with black ; tail 

 chestnut red, with or without black sub- 

 terminal band ; breast chestnut ; abdomen 

 black, more or less barred with white and 

 chestnut ; younger birds have under parts 

 rufous, excepting throat, which is blackish. 



