46 



Much smaller : Aviiig 14.50, tail 8.2, tarsus 

 2.7 in. 

 138a. Buteo ferox cirtensis (Levaill). Expl. Sci. 

 de I'Alger., pi. 3 (1850). [Algeria.] 

 Algerian Buzzard. 



N.W. and 

 N. Africa, 

 (Morocco, 

 Algeria, 

 Tunis), 

 Spain (ace. ?) 



8. Africa. 



Length rj 21, wing 17, tail 8, tarsus 3.30 in. ; 

 $ length 23, wing 18 in. ; general plumage 

 sooty or brownish-black ; lower breast 

 chestnut ; abdomen more or less barred 

 with white and chestnut ; i)rimaries 

 externally ashy, secondaries whitish, both 

 barred with black ; tail chestnut red, with 

 black sub-terminal band ; younger birds have 

 under parts rufous, excepting throat. 



139. BiUeojakal (Daud.), Traite, ii., p. 161 (1800). 

 [Cape of Good Hoj^e, ex Le Vaillant.] 

 Jackal Buzzard. 



13ya. Buteo jakal archeri W. 8cl., Bull. B.O.C., Somaliland. 

 xxxix., p. 17 (1918). 



Size similar ; tail less chestnut, more tawny ; 

 lower parts black in old birds ; in younger 

 chiefly white, excepting the throat which is 

 more or less black. 



140. Buteo augur Riipp., Neue Wirb. Vog., p. 38, pi. 

 16 (1835). [Abyssinia.] 

 Augur Buzzard. 



General plumage of q dusky blackish, the 

 feathers of back and wings margined with 

 brown ; sides of head and cervical collar 

 varied with rufous ; forehead, nape spot 

 and throat white ; breast as upper parts ; 

 abdomen and flanks white spotted and 

 streaked with black ; tail rufous with sub- 

 terminal black band. 



141. Buteo auguralis Salvad., Att. Soc. Ital. Sc. 

 Nat., viii., p. 377 (1865). [Abtjssinia.] 

 Salvadori's Buzzard. 



Size variable ; average length, ^J 21, wing 15.50 

 in. ; ? 24, wing 17.50 in. ; above blackish- 

 brown with more or less of lighter variegation ; 

 tail chestnut with one sub-terminal darker 

 band and often remains of others ; below 

 buffy-white, flanks barred or mottled and ab- 

 domen heavily streaked with blackish -brown. 



N.E. Africa, 



Equatorial 



Africa. 



W. Africa to 

 N.E. Africa. 



