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rufous, whitish at base and shafts white, 
with 2 or 3 definite bars towards tip and 
remains of others; uniform dark under 
parts of some birds probably a dark phase 
or erythrism rather than age ; also subject 
to melanism; immature buffish white 
below blotched and streaked with dark 
rufous brown ; tail ashy with darker bars. 
Buteo ferox cirtensis (Levaill., jun.). Expl. 
Sci. de l’Alger., pl. 3 [not text], (1850). 
[Algeria. | 
Algerian Buzzard. 
Much smaller; wing g 365.75, tail 208, 
tarsus 68 mm.; wing @ 380-400 mm. ; 
above brown with rufous or pale edgings ; 
below buff with shaftlines of dark brown ; 
belly and flanks washed with rufous ; thighs 
rufous ; tail pale rufous, without terminal 
or other bars. 
Buteo rufofuscus rufofuscus (Forst.) Natur- 
gesch. African. Vogel, p. 59, pl. 16 (1798). 
[S. Africa, ex Levaillant.] 
[=B. jakal (Daud.)] 
Jackal Buzzard. 
Wing 3g 400-430, tail 180-204, tarsus 85 
mm. ; wing 9 455 mm. ; above and throat 
and chest brownish black ; interscapulary 
feathers mostly white, varied with pale 
rufous ; primaries externally ashy. second- 
aries whitish, both barred with black ; tail 
chestnut red, with or without black sub- 
terminal band ; breast chestnut ; abdomen 
black, more or less barred with white and 
chestnut ; younger birds have under parts 
rufous, excepting threat, which is blackish. 
N. Africa, 
(Marocco, 
Algeria, 
Tunisia) ; S, in 
winter. 
S. Africa, S. of 
the Limpopo. 
