44 



barred with brown ; thighs dark brown, 



slightly barred with rufous ; feet smaller and 



slighter. 

 136e. Buteobuteobannermani, suhs-p.noY. [$Near 



Mindello Bay, St. Vincent, Cape Verd Is. Sept . 



26, 1913, in Coll. B. M. No. 1919. 8. 15. 148.] 



Cape Verd Buzzard. 



Size of but more rufous than B. buteo buteo ; 



more heavily marked below ; abdomen and 



under tail-coverts white barred transversely 



with rufous brown ; tail distinctly barred and 



with a rufous tinge ; wing^J 14.32, tail 8.25 in. 

 136f. Buteo buteo zimmermannce, Ehmcke, J.f.O. 



1893, p. 117. [Kreis Gumbinnen, E. Prussia.] 



Rufous Buzzard. 



Tarsus feathered alx)ut half-way down in 

 front ; plumage above purplish brown, with 

 rufescent margins ; tail with 4 or 5 indistinct 

 darker bars ; below rufous, abdomen buffy- 

 white, barred with rufous (younger birds 

 buffy -white below, streaked on breast and 



blotched on abdomen with dark broA^n.) 

 136g. Buteo buteo japonicus (Temm. et Schl.) in 



Siebold's Fauna Jap. Aves., p. 16. [pi. vi, 



vi^] (1844). [Japan.] [—B. plumipes. 



(Hodgs.)] 



Japanese Buzzard. 



Cape Verd 

 Islands. 



E. Europe : 

 E. Prussia 

 &W. &C. 

 Russia, N. 

 to Arch- 

 angel, S. 

 to Balkans, 

 W. casually 

 to Holland, 

 Brit. Is- 

 lands (*) 

 France and 

 Italy. 



Japan, China 



Corea, 



Manchuria, 



Turkestan, 



Punjab to 



Burma. 



B. Tail more definitely red in old birds, with 

 most of the bars obsolete. 

 Smaller : wing cJ 13.40-14.50, tail 7-8, tarsus 

 3 in., ? wing about 15 in. ; above brown 



* There are eight rufous Brit, birds in the Brit. Mus. collection, two of 

 which seem referable to B. rufiventer and the rest to this form, while there is 

 another example in Brighton Mu?. from the Monk coll., labelled " England." 

 Devonshire birds are, however, often almost as rufous as those from 

 E. Europe. 



