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XIV. — A note on the Buzzards of the Ethiopian Region, 

 By W. L. ScLATER, M.A., M.B.O.U. 



(Plate V.) 



Recently while cataloguing the Accipitres of the British 

 Museum I came across a remarkable new form of Buzzard 

 from Somaliiand, Avhich I described at the meeting of the 

 British Ornithologists' Club in November last year. This 

 has now been figured (PI. V.) by Mr. Gronvold, and I 

 have thought it might be useful to workers to give a short 

 synopsis of the African species of Buteo, especially as 

 some points have arisen which do not appear to have been 

 previously noticed. 



The following is a list of the species : — 



Buteo ferox ferox. 



Accipiter ferox S, G. Gmelin, Nov. Comra. Acad. Petrop. 

 XV. 1771, p. 442, pi. X. : Astrachan. 



[For the synonyms of this form, see Hartert, Vog. pal. 

 Faun. p. 1115.] 



Distr. S.E. Russia and the steppes of central Asia east to 

 Irkutsk, south to the Himalaya, Asia Minor, and Egypt. 

 Farther south in winter to the plains of northern India and 

 the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 



Buteo jakal jakal. 



Falco jakal Daudin, Traite, ii. 1800, p. 161 : Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



Distr. South Africa, including the Cape, Orange Free 

 State, Natal, and Transvaal Provinces, but not north of the 

 Limpopo so far as is known. 



Buteo jakal augur. 



Falco {Buteo) augur Riippcll, N. Wirbelt. 183G, p. 38, 

 pi. 16 : Abyssinia. 



Falco (Buteo) hydrophilus Riippell, ibid. p. 39, pi. 17 : 

 Abyssiuia. 



