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Aberrant species ; size small ; wing cJ 272, 

 ? 300-308 mm. ; very short and rounded ; 

 inner webs of first 4 primaries emarginate ; 

 tips of primaries reaching to about middle 

 of tail ; tail with 8 or 9 faint darker bars ; 

 plumage blackish-brown (dark phase), or 

 brown above and buffy white below and 

 on head (Ught phase). 



132. Buteo brachyptems Hartl., J. f. O. 1860, 

 p. 11 (ex. Pelzeln MS.). [Madagascar.] 

 Short-winged Buzzard. 



Size small ; wing ad. 300-325 mm. ; above 

 pale brown ; tail with 6 or 7 bands of darker 

 brown ; below white, throat narrowly and 

 breast broadly streaked with pale brown ; 

 beUy and thighs uniform pale brown. 



Madagascar. 



tl33. Btdeo hemilasius Temm. et Schl., in 

 Siebold's Faun. Japon. Aves p. 16 (1844), 

 pi. vii. (1845). [Japan.] 

 [Buteo leucocephalus and Archibuieo strophi- 

 atus (Hodgs.) are synonyms.] 

 Upland Buzzard. 



Size large ; wing $ 480 mm. ; head and 

 neck white, with broad streaks of pale 

 brown ; above dull brown ; tail with in- 

 distinct darker cross-bars, the base and 

 inner webs white ; below white, barred on 

 throat and streaked on breast with dark 

 brown ; flanks dark brown. 



Mongolia to 

 Tibet, Nepal 

 and L. Baikal 

 cas. Japan ; 

 winters China 

 Turkestan, 

 N. India. 



*fl34. Buteo japonicus (Temm. et Schl.) in Sie- 

 bold's Fauna Jap. Aves., p. 16 (1844), [pi. 



VI., vi«], (1845). 

 mipes (Hodgs.)] 

 Japanese Buzzard. 



[Japan.] [ =B. plu- 



Japan, Corea, 

 China, 

 Manchuria, 

 Turkestan, 

 Himalayas ? ; 

 S. to Punjab 

 and Burma. 



