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vSmaller insular race ; darker aucl more 

 rufous ; more heavily marked below, tail 

 tinged rufous. 

 136a. Buteo buteo arrigonii Picclii, Avicula, vii.. tSardinia, 

 p. 40 (1903). [Sardinia.] Corsica. 



Sardinian Buzzard. 



Wing 9 16.50. o 15.50 in. ; large and dark 

 insular race ; more similar to ziynmermannoi 

 than typical form ; darker than latter gener- 

 ally is and nearly uniform below, blackish- 

 brown to rufous -brown, the abdomen barred ; 

 tail with 10 or 12 darker bars and with or 

 without rufous tinge. , 



136b. Buteo buteo harterti subsp. nov. [B. buteo Madeira. j 



subsp. ^ Hart., Vog. Pal. Faun., p. 1123 

 (1914)]. [Type in Tring Mus.] 

 Madeira Buzzard. 



Wing c^ 13.40-14.10 ; $ 14.70-15.25 in. ; 

 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 huffish -white. 

 136c. Buteo buteo rothschildi, subsp. nov.* [No. Azores. —J. 



1904, 12. 31. 286, Coll. B.M., $ Terceira. 

 Az. Apl. 6, 1903. W.R.O. Grant.] 

 Azores Buzzard. 



Wing$ 15.40-15-70,^ (juv.) 13.80 in. ; rufous 

 form ; chest and abdomen rufous brown ; tail 

 brown, slightly tinged with rufous and with 

 the dark?r bars nearly obsolete in very old 

 bird, about 5 being apparent : yoiuiger birds 

 have about 10 distinct bars. 

 136d. Buteo buteo insularum Floericke. .MitteiJ. Canary 



Oesterr. Reichsb , iii., p. 64 (1903). [Gran Isles. 



Canaria.] 



Canary Isles Buzzard. 



Paler and less rufous than three preceding 

 forms; wing $14.60; above a shy-brown, with 

 paler margins to the feathers : tail with 9 

 darker bars : below throat white, streaked 

 with dusky-brown ; chest brown, mottled Mith 

 buffy-white ; centre of breast whiter ; belly 



* The fine series in Brit. Mus. does not appear to me to confirm the view 

 that the Azores race is the same as the Canary Is. race. 



