1919-] Buzzards of the Ethiopian Region. 253 



" The bird is named after Mr. Archer^ who has recently 

 been making a very fine collection of Somaliland birds. 



"•I regard the Jackal and Augur Buzzards, together with 

 the new Somaliland form, as constituting a group of three 

 subspecific forms under the specific name of Buteojalal." 



Buteo auguralis. 



Buteo auynralis Salvadori, Atti Soc. Ital. Milan, viii. 

 1865, p. 377 : Abyssinia and Gebel Aidun in the Lybian 

 Desert. 



Distr. North-eastern and western Africa from southern 

 Abyssinia and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan westwards to the 

 Gold Coast Colony and south to Gaboon and Angola. 



There are examples in the British Museum from Sennar, 

 the Baro river, the Bahr el Ghazal, Sierra Leone, Gold 

 Coast, and Gaboon. 



This species can always be distinguished by the charac- 

 teristic chestnut-reddish patch on the side of the neck and 

 in the adult by its rich rufous tail, which has only one sub- 

 terminal black band ; below it is white, often with a patch 

 of blackish brown on the chest and a few spots of the same 

 colour on the rest of the underparts, the feathers of the 

 shoulders and back have very dark chestnut-brown edgings ; 

 wing averages 330 mm. 



Buteo buteo rufi venter. 



Buteo rufiventer Jerdon, Madras Journ. xiii. 184-4, p. 165 : 

 Nilgiri hills ; id. Illustr. Ind. Orn. pi. 27. 



Buteo vuljnnus Lichtenstein, Nomencl. Av. iNlus. Berol. 

 1854, p. 3 : Kaffirland [nom. nud.]. 



Bifteo anceps A. 'E.Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 6: Upper 

 Blue Nile. 



Buteo minor Heuglin, S.B. Akad. Wien, xix. 1856, p. 257 : 

 Nubia, etc. 



Buteo delalandi des jNIurs, Rev. Mag. Zool. 1862, p. 52 

 [in part] : South Africa. 



Buteo desertorum auct. nee Daudin. 



Distr. Breeding in south-east Russia and perhaps Asia 



