132. 
+133. 
*4134, 
69 
Aberrant species ; size small ; wing 3 272, 
2 300-308 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 (light phase). 
Buteo brachypterus 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 ; 
belly and thighs uniform pale brown. 
Buteo hemilasius Temm. et Schl., in 
Siebold’s Faun. Japon. Aves p. 16 (1844), 
pl. vit. (1845). [Japan.] 
[Buteo leucocephalus and Archibuteo stropm- 
atus (Hodgs.) are synonyms. | 
Upland Buzzard. 
Size large; wing 2 480 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. 
Buteo japonicus (Temm. et Schl.) in Sie- 
bold’s Fauna Jap. Aves., p. 16 (1844), [pl. 
vi., vi'], (1845). [Japan.) [=B. plu- 
mipes (Hodgs.)] 
Japanese Buzzard. 
Madagascar. 
Mongolia to 
Tibet, Nepal 
and L. Baikal ; 
cas. Japan ; 
winters China, 
Turkestan, 
N. India. 
Japan, Corea, 
China, 
Manchuria, 
Turkestan, 
Himalayas ? ; 
S. to Punjab 
and Burma. 
