—138a. 
#1139, 
74 
rufous, breast varied with creamy buff and 
throat streaked with brown; belly not 
obviously barred in adult. Immature 
whitish below, streaked on chest and barred 
or blotched on belly with rufous to dark 
brown; tail ashy-brown, more or less 
washed with rufous and with 9 or 10 
blackish bars. 
Buteo vulpinus intermedius Menzbier, Orn. 
Turkestan, p. 197 (1888). [West of Russia. | 
Rufous Buzzard. 
[ =. zimmermanne Ehmeke. | 
Size similar to b. vulpinus vulpinus but 
always smaller than Lb. buieo buteo ; wing 
6 350-82, 2 366-93; first 4 primaries 
notched exactly as in Bb. vulpinus ; above 
similar, but tail always barred (8-9 bars), the 
interspaces either bright ferruginous red, or 
strongly washed with the same; below 
more heavily marked than in b. buteo buteo ; 
breast, abdomen and under tail coverts 
heavily barred transversely with rufous 
brown. Young: less rufous ; tail ashy 
grey, more or less washed with rufous and 
with dark bars; below more striped and 
blotched instead of barred (scarcely dis- 
tinguishable from young of Bb. vulpinus 
vulpinus). 
Buteo ferox ferox (S. G. Gmel.), N. Comm. 
Acad. Petrop. xv., 1770; “p. 442, pl. @< 
(1771). [Astrakan.| 
Long-legged Buzzard. 
Much larger: wing ¢ 410-445, tail 265, 
tarsus 96 mm., 2 wing 455-482 mm. ; breast 
buffish to pale rufous with dark shaft 
streaks ; abdomen, flanks and thighs rufous 
to chocolate brown, unbarred ; tail pale 
E \Prussiay to 
Esthonia. and 
Finland (except 
N. & W ), 
Russia, N. to 
Archangel, S. to 
Central and 
S.W. Russia, W. 
to Roumania 
and Bulgaria ; 
cas; ini. 
Europe. 
9.E. Europe 
(cas. Sica 
Europe), Egypt, 
Arabia, Asia 
Minor, W. & C. 
Asia and 
Himalayas ; in 
winter S. to 
N.W. India and 
Sudan. 
