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uniform below, blackish-brown to rufous- 

 brown, the abdomen barred ; tail with 10 

 or 12 darker bars and with or without 

 rufous tinge. 



137c. Buteo buteo rothschildi, Swann, Syn. List Azores. 

 Accip., p. 43 (1919). [Terceira, Azores, 

 type in Brit. Mus.] 

 Azores Buzzard. 



Smaller ; wing S 340-357 ; ? 372-386 mm. ; 

 rufous form, but tail generally light ashy, 

 with 7-9 bars, the sub-terminal broad, more 

 or less tinged with rufous ; below with 

 belly either uniform deep rufous or barred 

 and mottled with huffish- white. 



137d. Buteo huteo insularum Floericke, Mitteil. Canary Isles. 

 Oesterr. Reichsb., iii., p. 64 (1903). [Gran 

 Canaria.] 

 Canary Isles Buzzard. 



Wing 9 390-398, <J (juv.) 350 mm. ; rufous 

 form ; chest and abdomen rufous brown ; 

 tail brown slightly tinged with rufous and 

 with the darker bars nearly obsolete in very 

 old bird, about 5 being apparent ; younger 

 birds have about 10 distinct bars. 



137e. Buteo buteo hannermani, Swann, Syn. List Cape Verd 

 Accip., p. 44 (1919). [? Near Mindello Islands. 

 Bay, St. Vincent, Cape Verd Is., type in 

 Coll. B. M.] 

 Cape Verd Buzzard. 



Wing S 342, ? 370-380 mm. ; paler and less 

 rufous than three preceding forms ; above 

 ashy-brown, with paler margins to the 

 feathers ; tail with 9 darker bars ; below : 

 throat white, streaked with dusky-brown ; 



