27. BurEo. 181 



Buteo vulgaris, Blyth, Ibis, 1863, p. 20. 

 Buteo asiaticus, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 339. 



Young. Above pale brown ; scapulars and feathers of the hind 

 neck washed with rufous on their outer margins, the whole of the 

 upper plumage much varied with white bases to the feathers and 

 also on the inner web, especially on the upper tail-coverts ; head and 

 hind neck distinctly streaked with white ; lores, a distinct eyebrow, 

 and ear-coverts white, the latter rufescent on their upper margin; 

 the cheeks plainly streaked with brown, forming a distinct mous- 

 tache ; under surface of body white, with a few narrow streaks of 

 brown on the throat and sides of chest, becoming broader on the 

 lower flanks ; thighs and under tail-coverts entirely white ; under 

 wing-coverts yellowish white, streaked with dark brown ; primaries 

 dark brown, shaded externally with ashy near the base ; secondaries 

 paler brown, like the back, and tipped with whitish ; the inner 

 face of the quills white for two thirds of their length ; tail-feathers 

 pale brown, darker towards the tips, which are whitish ; the bases of 

 the feathers white, mottled with brown, this coloration extending up 

 the inner web ; all the rectrices with indistinct cross bars of darker 

 brown. Total length 21 inches, wing 14-8, tail 9, tarsus 2-8, bare 

 part of tarsus in front to base of middle toe 0-95, on side to sole of 

 tarsus 0-55. 



Adidi. Above dark purplish brown, the feathers rufescent 'on their 

 margins ; sides of face and neck rufous, streaked with dark brown 

 down the centre of the feather ; lores whitish ; sides of face also 

 rufous ; the upper margin of ear-coverts dark brown, and the cheeks 

 blackish, forming a strongly pronounced moustache ; under surface of 

 the body rufous, plainly streaked with blackish on the chin, and less 

 distinctly on the throat ; chest almost uniform rufous, varied only by 

 a black shaft-stripe and a few fulvous spots on some of the feathers; 

 the feathers of the lower breast entirely fulvous white, irregularly 

 barred with rufous brown ; the lower flanks uniform dull brown, 

 slightly washed with rufous ; thighs clearer rufous, with fulvous 

 margins to the feathers ; lower abdomen, vent, and under tail- 

 coverts creamy buff, varied with indistinct remains of rufous bars ; 

 under wing- coverts uniform smokj- brown, the inner ones nifous at 

 tip ; the axiEaries and smaU coverls round the carpal joint ochra- 

 ceous buff, varied with rufous in the centre ; upper wing-coverts 

 dark brown, like the back, the greater coverts varied with pale 

 rufous on their inner webs; primaries blackish, secondaries paler 

 brown, with whitish tips, inner face of quills white for greater 

 part of their length, the secondaries irregularly mottled or barred 

 with brown ; tail brown, tipped with whitish, before which is an 

 indistinctly indicated band of purplish brown ; the tail washed with 

 rufous, and crossed with only three or four distinguishable bars of 

 darker brown, those near the base dissolved into brown mottlings. 

 Total length 21-5 inches, culmen 1-35, -wing 15-7, tail 9, tarsus 3, 

 bare part of same in fi-ont to root of middle toe 1-2, on side to sole' 

 of foot 1'65. 



Very old (type of species, figured in Plate YII.). Everywhere dull 



