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rufous, breast varied with creamy buff and 

 throat streaked with brown ; belly not 

 obviously barred in adult. Immature 

 whitish below, streaked on chest and barred 

 or blotched on belly with rufous to dark 

 brown ; tail ashy-brown, more or less 

 washed with rufous and with 9 or 10 

 blackish bars. 



flSSa. Buteo vtdpinus intermedius Menzbier, Orn. 

 Turkestan, p. 197 (1888). {West of Russia.] 

 Rufous Buzzard. 

 [=B. zimmermanncB Ehmeke.] 



Size similar to B. vulpinus vulpinus but 

 always smaller than B. buteo buteo ; wing 

 <J 350-82, ? 366-93; first 4 primaries 

 notched exactly as in B. vulpinus ; above 

 similar, but tail always barred (8-9 bars), the 

 interspaces either bright ferruginous red, or 

 strongly washed with the same ; below 

 more heavily marked than in B. buteo buteo ; 

 breast, abdomen and under tail coverts 

 heavily barred transversely with rufous 

 brown. Young : less rufous ; tail ashy 

 grey, more or less washed with rufous and 

 with dark bars ; below more striped and 

 blotched instead of barred (scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable from young of B. vulpinus 

 vulpinus). 



E. Prussia to 

 Esthonia, and 

 Finland (except 

 N. & W.), 

 Russia, N. to 

 Archangel, S. to 

 Central and 

 S.W. Russia, W. 

 to Roumania 

 and Bulgaria ; 

 cas. in W. 

 Europe. 



*tl39. Buteo ferox ferox (S. G. Gmel.), N. Comm. 

 Acad. Petrop. xv., 1770, p. 442, pi. x. 

 (1771). [Astrakan.^ 

 Long-legged Buzzard. 



Much larger : wing ^ 410-445, tail 265, 

 tarsus 96 mm., ? wing 455^482 mm. ; breast 

 huffish to pale rufous with dark shaft 

 streaks ; abdomen, flanks and thighs rufous 

 to chocolate brown, unbarred ; tail pale 



S.E. Europe 

 (cas. S. &W. 

 Europe), Egypt, 

 Arabia, Asia 

 Minor, W. & C. 

 Asia and 

 Himalayas ; in 

 winter S. to 

 N.W. India and 

 Sudan. 



