137c. 
137d. 
137e. 
72 
uniform below, blackish-brown to rufous- 
brown, the abdomen barred ; tail with 10 
or 12 darker bars and with or without 
rufous tinge. 
Buteo buteo rothschildi, Swann, Syn. List 
Accip., p. 43 (1919). [Lerceiva, Azores, 
type in Brit. Mus.] 
Azores Buzzard. 
Smaller ; wing ¢ 340-357 ; 2372-386 mm. ; 
rufous form, but tail generally light 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 buffish-white. 
Buteo buteo insularum Floericke, Mitteil. 
Oesterr. Reichsb., iii., p. 64 (1903). [Gran 
Canaria. | 
Canary Isles Buzzard. 
Wing 2 390-398, 3 (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. 
Buteo buteo bannermani, Swann, Syn. List 
Accip., p. 44 (1919). [2 Near Mindello 
Bay, St. Vincent, Cape Verd Is., type in 
Coll. B. M.] 
Cape Verd Buzzard. 
Wing ¢ 342, 9 370-380 mm. ; paler and less 
rufous than three preceding forms ; above 
ashy-brown, with paler margins to the 
feathers ; tail with 9 daiker bars; below: 
throat white, streaked with dusky-brown ; 
Azores. 
Canary Isles. 
Cape Verd 
Islands. 
