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BUTEO DESERTOEUM. 



(AFRICAN BUZZAKD.) 



Le Rougri, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 77, pi. 17 (1799). 



Falco desertorum, Daud. Traite d'Orn. ii. p. 162 (1800). 



Buteo desertorum (Daud.), Vieill. Nouv. Die. iv. p. 478 (1816). 



JButeo rufiventer, Jerd. 111. Ind. Orn. pi. 27 (1847). 



Falco cirtensis, Levaill. jun., Expl. Sci. de l'Alg. pi. 3 (1850). 



JButeo capensis, Temm. & Schl. Faun. Japon. Aves, p. 16 (1850). 



Buteo cirtensis (Levaill.), Bp. Eev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 532, sp. 67. 



Buteo vulpinus, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 3 (1854). 



Buteo minor, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 5 (1856). 



Buteo tachardus, Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 183 (nee Daud.). 



Buteo vulgaris, var. capensis, Pelz. Verb, zool.-bot. Gesells. Wien, 1862, p. 144. 



Buteo vulgaris, Jerdon, B. of India, i. p. 87 (1862, nee Leach). 



Buteo delalandi, Des Murs, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1863, p. 52. 



Buteo rufinus, Taczanowski, J. f. O. 1870, p. 37 (nee Cretzsch.). 



Buteo ferox, Heuglin, J. f. O. 1870, p. 384 (nee Gm.). 



Khabas, Moorish. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 Levaill. I. c. ; Jerdon, I. c. 



Ad. capite et collo superiore sordide albidis, fronte et nucha vix brunneo notatis, capitis lateribus rufescente 

 notatis et striatis : dorso saturate brunneo, plumis fere omnibus ferrugineo marginatis : uropygio 

 sordide brunneo, plumis pallidiore marginatis : remigibus in pogonio externo et versus apicem nigro- 

 fuscis, in pogonio interno albidis vix ochrascente ferrugineo lavatis, et conspicue in dimidio interno 

 nigro-fusco fasciatis : tectricibus alarum dorso concoloribus : rectricibus centralibus ferrugineis, fasciis 

 obsoletis et fascia conspicua. subapicali notatis, reliquis in pogonio externo grisescenti-brunneis et in 

 pogonio interno pallide cervinis, in dimidio interno pogonii grisescente brunneo fasciatis : gutture, 

 corpore subtus cum subtectricibus alarum pallide ferrugineis albido immixtis, plumis fere omnibus 

 centraliter fuscis : abdomine imo et subcaudalibus albido apicatis aut marginatis : rostro corneo : cera, 

 cum pedibus flavis, unguibus nigricantibus : iride rufescenti-fusca. 



Juv. corpore et capite supra saturate fuscis vix rufescente immixtis : supracaudalibus versus apicem sordide 

 ferrugineo fasciatis et eodem colore apicatis : remigibus ut in adulto sed non ochrascente ferrugineo 

 lavatis : Cauda rufescenti-cervina, valde nigro-fusco transfasciata. : capitis lateribus albidis, fusco 

 striatis : gula, et gutture albis, fere immaculatis : corpore subtus albo, pectore et abdominis lateribus 

 nigro-fusco notatis : tibiae plumis sordide fuscis rufescente cervino immixtis et fasciatis. 



Adult Male (Tangier) . Head and upper neck dull greyish white, on the forehead slightly marked with dark 

 brown, and sides of the head slightly marked with rufous; back and wing-coverts dark earth-brown, 



