DESERT BUZZARD. 
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Rap aces — Diurnte. 
FALCONIDJE. 
Genus — Buteo. (Cuvier.J 
DESERT ■ BUZZARD. 
Buteo clesertorum. 
Buteo desertorum, 
n 
cirtensis, 
Capensis, 
palpinus, 
anceps, 
rufiventra, 
Falco tachardus, 
Le rougri, 
African Buzzard, 
Daudin; Tr. d'Orn. ii. 
Le Vaillant; Ois. d'Afrique., pi. 17. 
Idem. 
SCHLEGEL. 
LlCHTENSTEIN. 
Brehm. 
Jerdon. 
Bree, 1 st. ed. 
Le Vaillant. 
Bree; 1st. ed. 
Specific Characters. — Plumage of upper parts dark brown; under parts whitish, 
spotted with brown. Tarsi clothed in front on their upper thirds. - 
Measurement of adult specimen in Norwich Museu?7i. — Length seventeen inches 
and three-quarters; from carpus to tip of wing fourteen inches and a half; 
tarsus three inches. 
This is another bird which I introduced into the first edition upon 
the authority of Mr. J. H. Gurney, who has two specimens from the 
mouths of the Volga in his collection. I have since received its eggs 
from S. Russia. It occurs also in Portugal and Southern Spain, whence 
two specimens were brought by Mr. S. R,eid and presented to the 
Zoological Gardens. A specimen, Mr. Gould informs me, was also killed 
at Everly in Wiltshire in 1864. It is now in the possession of Mr. 
Gould. Mr. G. also informs me that he has a specimen from Southern 
Turkey. 
Mr. Gurney writes me word, "I am now convinced that I was wrong 
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