70 



Wing <? 355-60, ? 390-405 mm, ; tarsus 

 feathered about half-way down in front ; 

 plumage above purplish brown, with ruf- 

 escent margins ; tail with 4 or 5 almost 

 obsolete darker bars ; below rufous, abdo- 

 men buffy-white, barred with rufous. 

 (Young : above with whitish edgings ; 

 below pale buff, finely streaked on breast 

 and blotched on abdomen with dark brown, 

 usually with a zone resembUng that of 

 lagopus). 



*'fl35. Buteo swainsoni Bonap. [ex. Aud. pi. 372] N. and S. 



Geogr. and Comp. List, p. 3 (1838). [Near America, from 



the Columbia River.] Alaska to Chile 

 Swainson's Hawk. 



Wing (N. American average), ^ 371, $ 399 

 mm. ; wing (S. American average), (J 378, 

 ? 412 mm. ; first 3 primaries notched ; 

 above dark-brown to slate-brown with 

 paler edgings ; tail with 10 or 12 darker 

 cross-bars, the sub-terminal broad ; throat 

 white, chest fight rufous to deep chestnut 

 or brownish black ; lower parts buffy-white 

 more or less barred with rufous (sometimes 

 closely and entirely covered) ; uniform 

 sooty-brown or blackish varieties occur. 



136. 'Buteo oreophilus Hart. 

 M.B. xxii., p. 31 (1914). 

 Djam, S. Abyssinia.'] 

 ' E. African Buzzard. 



and Neum., Orn. 

 [Koritscha, Djam- 



Wing S 330, ? 340 mm. ; tail pale brown 

 with about 8 darker bars ; below whitish, 

 spotted and blotched lengthwise with dark 

 brown ; thighs buffish, barred with dark 

 brown. 



Mountains of 

 E. Africa ; 

 Abyssinia and 

 Uganda to 

 the Cape. 



