390 FALCONIDJE. 



1239. Buteo ferox. TJie Long-legged Buzzard. 



Accipiter ferox, S. G. Gmel Nov. Com. Petrop. xv, p. 443, pi. x 



(? 1770). 



Falco rufinus, Cretzschm. in Hupp. Atlas, Vogel, p. 40, pi. 27 (1826). 

 Buteo canescens, Hodgs. Beng. Sport. Mag. viii, p. 180 (1836) ; Blyth, 



J.A.S. B. xii, p. 308,- id. Ibis, 1863, p. 20 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 88 ; 



Stoliczka, J. A. S. B. xxxvii, pt. 2, p. 16. 

 Buteo longipes, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. x, p. 75 (1839). 

 Buteo rufinus, Blyth, Cat. p. 28; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 61. 

 Buteo ferox, Jerdon, B. L iii, p. 869 ; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 244 ; 



Hume, Rough Notes, p. 274 ; id. Ibis, 1871, p. 25 ; Jerdon, Ibis, 



1871, p. 338 ; A. Anderson, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 78 ; Stoliczka, J. A. 



lank, S. F. iv, p. 253; Davidson $ Wenden, S. F. vii, p. 74; 



Scully, S. F. viii, p. 225 ; Wardl. Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 47 ; 



Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 42 ; Scully, ibid. p. 420 ; Barnes, S. I. ix, 



p. 452 ; id. Birds Bom. p. 42 ; Reid, S. F. x, p. 450 ; Oates in 



Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 125. 

 Buteo fuliginosus, Hume, Ibis, 1869, p. 356 ; nee Sclater. 

 Buteo desertorum, apud Hume, Rough Notes, p. 268, partim ; nee 



Daud. 



Chuhumar, H. 



Fig. 96. Eight foot of Buteo ferox, 



Coloration very variable : there are two principal phases dark 

 and pale, with numerous varieties of both. 



In the pale or rufous form the crown, nape, hind-neck, upper 

 back, scapulars, and wing-coverts are brown, with broad light 

 rufous edges and white bases, the rufous borders wearing off and 

 the white bases becoming more conspicuous in worn plumage, the 

 brown sometimes reduced to shaft-stripes on the crown and nape ; 

 sides of head generally paler than crown, often buff or white, with 

 dark shaft-stripes ; lower back and upper tail-coverts brown, the 

 latter with rufous edges; quills tipped with blackish brown, 



