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275. Machcerhamphus anderssoni anderssoni S.W. Africa, 

 (Gurney), P.Z.S., 1865, p. 618 [Otjimhinque, Madagascar, 

 Damaraland, type in Norw. Mus.] B. E. Africa, 



Anderson's Pern. Uganda, Brit. 



Centr. Africa, 

 Rather smaller ; wing ad. 353, tail 185 mm.; Cameroon, 

 above chocolate brown ; nape with white 

 bases to feathers ; above and below eye a 

 broad white line ; throat white, with dark 

 brown moustachial line each side and a 

 faint central streak ; primaries dark brown, 

 banded with white below ; tail chocolate 

 brown above, banded with pale brown, 

 white below ; upper breast white streaked 

 with dark brown, lower breast and flanks 

 dark brown mottled with white ; bill 

 bluish, black at tip ; feet bluish white. 



275a. Machcerhamphus [anderssoni] revoili Oust., Somaliland. 

 Bibl. Hautes Etudes, xxxi., art. 10, p. 2 

 (1866). [Somaliland.] 



[Not seen, doubtful form.] 



Gen. LXXXVIII. PERNIS Cuv. (1817). 

 Type by monotypy Falco apivorus L. 



Size large ; head usually only slightly crested ; 

 bill stouter ; basal plumes not produced beyond 

 posterior margin of nostril ; wings and tail long ; 

 tarsus short, feathered about halt way down. 



t276. Pernis apivorus (Linn.), S.N., i., p. 91 

 (1758). [Europe — restr. type loc. Sweden 

 apud Hart.] 

 Honey Buzzard. 



Wing ad. 400-425, tail 275-280 mm. ; 

 plumage variable ; normally above brown, 

 with paler margins and black shaft-stripes ; 

 head ashy grey ; nape mottled with white ; 

 wing quills darker at tips and with 2 basal 



Europe, N. to 

 Lapland, S. to 

 Spain, N. Italy 

 and Greece, E. 

 to Ural and 

 Asia Minor ; 

 N. Africa ; 

 in winter to 

 S. Africa ; 

 cas. Canaries. 



