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140a. Buteo rufofuscus archeri (W. Sclat.), Bull. Somaliland. 
141. 
B.O.C., xxxix., p. 17 (1918). [Waghar, 
Somaliland, type in Brit. Mus.] 
Archer’s Buzzard. 
Smaller; wing ¢ 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.” 
Buteo augur (Ripp.), Neue Wirb. Vég., 
p. 38, pl. 16 (1836). [Abyssinia.| 
Augur Buzzard. 
Wing ¢ 400-428, 2 450-475 mm.; tail 
chestnut, with more o: 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. 
Buteo auguralis Salvad., Att. Soc. Ital. Sc. 
Nat., vili., p. 276 (1865). [Abyssinia.} 
Salvadori’s Buzzard. 
Wing ¢ 340, 2 356 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. 
N.E. Africa 
(Abyssinia and 
Erythrea), 
Equatorial and 
Cential Africa, 
S. to Rhodesia. 
S. Abyssinia to 
W. Africa (Gold 
Coast and 
Gaboon). 
1 The bird described appears to be in intermediate plumage, not fully adult, 
and is dovbtfully separable except as a northerw race of B. rufofuscus. 
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