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140a. Buteo rufofuscus archeri (W. Sclat.), Bull. SomaUland. 

 B.O.C., xxxix., p. 17 (1918). [Waghar, 

 SomaUland, type in Brit. Mus.] 

 Archer's Buzzard. 



Smaller ; wing S 400, tail 195, tarsus 85 

 mm. ; " White on scapulars and back 

 replaced by reddish ; below from lower 

 breast to under tail-coverts rich rufous 

 ' instead of white." 



141. Buteo augur (Riipp.), Neue Wirb. 

 p. 38, pi. 16 (1836). lAbyssinia.i 

 Augur Buzzard. 



Vog., 



Wing (? 400-428, ? 450-475 mm. ; tail 

 chestnut, with more oi less obsolete black 

 terminal bar ; old birds above black ; the 

 wings much as in rufofuscus ; below pure 

 white, excepting the throat which is more or 

 less black ; melanistic phase black above 

 and below, with chestnut tail. Immature 

 above brown ; tail brown with about 10 

 dark bars ; below white, blotched with 

 dark brown, especially on throat and flanks. 



N.E. Africa 

 (Abyssinia and 

 Erythraea), 

 Equatorial and 

 Cential Africa, 

 S. to Rhodesia. 



142. Buteo auguralis Salvad., Att. Soc. Ital. Sc. 

 Nat., viii., p. 276 (1865). [Abyssinia.i 

 Salvadori's Buzzard. 



Wing 3 340, ? 356 mm. ; general plumage 

 dusky blackish, the feathers of back and 

 wings margined with brown ; sides of head 

 and cervical collar varied with rufous ; 

 forehead, nape spot and throat white ; 

 chest either blotched with brown, or 

 uniform dark brown ; abdomen and flanks 

 white spotted and streaked with black ; 

 tail rufous with subterminal black band. 



S. Ab37ssinia to 

 W. Africa (Gold 

 Coast and 

 Gaboon). 



' The bird described appears to be in intermediate plumage, not fully adult, 

 and is doubtfully separable except as a northern race of B. ruf^uscus. 



