+139a. 
+140. 
79 
rufous, whitish at base and shafts white, 
with 2 or 3 definite bars towards 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 buffish white 
below blotched and streaked with dark 
rufous brown ; tail ashy with darker bars. 
Buteo ferox cirtensis (Levaill., jun.). Expl. 
Scie! Alecrs plo [not text]; (1850): 
[ Algeria. | 
Algerian Buzzard. 
Much smaller; wing ¢ 365.75, tail 208, 
tarsus 68 mm.; wing 2 380-400 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. 
buteo rufofuscus rufofuscus (Forst.) Natur- 
gesch. African. Vogel, p. 59, pl. 16 (1798). 
[Se africa, ex Bevaillant.| 
[ =B. jakal (Daud.)] 
Jackal Buzzard. 
Wing 3g 400-430, tail 180-204, tarsus 85 
mm. ; wing 9 455 mm. ; above and throat 
and chest brownish black ; interscapulary 
feathers mostly white, varied with pale 
rufous ; primaries externally ashy. second- 
arles 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. 
N. Africa, 
(Marocco, 
Algeria, 
Tunisia): Sain 
winter. 
S. Africas. S;-ot 
the Limpopo. 
