1919-] ^^^^ Birds of the Anf/Io-E(/yptiaii Sudan. 699 



Gypaetus barbatus subsp. ? 



Mr. Willoughby Lowe informs us that lie saw an uiu 

 doubted Lammergeier in the Red Sea Province at Erkowit 

 on April 1, 1934, and that another was seen by Commander 

 Lynes on April G and on subsequent occasions. They were 

 in all probability the Abyssinian form, which is believed to 

 be identical with G. h. meridionalis Keys. & Bias, from South 

 Africa. 



Buteo buteo rufiventer. 



Buteo rnjTventer Jerdon, Madras Journ. xiii. 184-4, ]). 165 : 

 Nilgiri Hills. 



Buteo buteo rufiventer Sclater, Ibis, 1919, p. 253. 



Buteo desertorum auct., Butler, Ibis, 1905, p. 368, 1908, 

 p. 253, 1909, p. 402; and Buteo ancejjs Qvehvn apud Hartert. 



[B. coll.] 3 Khartoum Oct. & Nov. 

 [C. & L. coll.] 2 Sinkat Mch. R.S. 



The Desert Buzzard seems a fairly common winter visitor 

 to the Sudan and was seen by Mr. Butler in the Red Sea 

 Province as late as May. For use of this name cf. Sclater, 

 op. cit. 



Buteo ferox ferox. 



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

 XV. 1770-1771,p. 442: Astrakan. 



Buteo ferox ferox Hartert, Vog. pal. Faun. p. 1115. 

 [B. coll.] 3 Khartoum Mch. 25, Dec. 3, 16. 



A winter migrant to the Sudan, apparently only the 

 northern portion. 



Buteo jakal augur. 



Falco [Buteo) augur Rii|)}). Neue Wirbelt. 1836, p. 38, 

 pi. 16 : Abyssinia. 



Buteo jakal aiujur Sclater, Ibis, 1919, p. 251. 



Mr. Butler records this species from the Blue Nile and 

 Erkowit. Heuglin also records it from the Blue Nile 

 and Sennar. It is common in Abyssinia. There are no 

 Sudanese examples in the Museum. 



