28. ABCHIBUTEO. 199 



3. Archibuteo strophiatus. (Plate VII. fig. 2.) 



Hemiaetos strophiatus, Hodgs. in Graxfs Zool. 3Itsc. p. 81 (1844). 

 Archibuteo strophiatus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. Sf B. Nepal Hodgs. p. 39 



(1846) ; id. Gen. B. i. p. 12 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 18 (1850) ; 

 • Kavp, Contr. Oni. 1850, p. 75 ; Jerd. Ibis, 1871, p. 340. 

 Archibuteo hemiptilopus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 1 (1846) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 12 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 18 (1850) ; Jerd. B. Ind. 



i. p. 94 (1862) ; Blyth, Ibis, 1863, p. 20; Gray,Hand-l. B.i. p. 10 



(1869) ; Hutne, Bough Notes, ii. p. 232 (1870) ; id. Stray F. i. 



p. 315 (1873). 

 Ai'chibuteo cryptogenys, Hodgs. Culc. Juitrn. N. H. viii. p. 94, pi. 5, 



fig. 1 (1847). 

 Archibuteo aquilinus, Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 41 (1855). 

 Archibuteo asiaticus. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 10 (1869). 

 Archibuteo leucoptera, Hume, Stray F. i. p. 318 (1873). 



^lult (type of species). Above brown, rather darker on the inter- 

 scapulary region, scapulars and •nnng-coverts margined with paler 

 brown ; head lighter brown than the back, the hind neck streaked with 

 white ; lores whitish ; an indistinct blackish eyebrow ; sides of face 

 and neck brown, the ear-coverts varied with fulvous on upper 

 margin ; entire under surface of body brown, including the tarsal 

 feathers, -^'hich extend to the root of the toes ; chin slightly varied 

 with white, and across the breast a broad irregular band of white, 

 many of the breast-feathers slightly shading oif into paler brown on 

 their margins ; quills dark brown, primaries with a slight greyish 

 shade externally, secondaries tipped with buffy white, the innermost 

 paler brown like the back ; primaries white at base of inner web, 

 extending a little higher up on the secondaries, which are, however, 

 mottled with brown; tail brown above, ashy white beneath, the shafts 

 white and the tips bufiy white, the feathei's crossed with traces of 

 sevQn or eight bars of dark brown, the subterminal one very broad, 

 aU the others more or less dissolved. Total length 27 inches, culmen 

 1-9, wing 19-4, tail 11, tarsus 3-6. 



Hah. Nepal and Thibet. 



a. Ad. st. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. Type of species 



and specimen figured. 



4. Archibuteo ferrugiaeiis. 



Falco ferruginous, Licht. Abhandl. K. Akad. Berlin, 1838, p. 428. 



Lagopus ferrugineus, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1844, p. 37. 



Archibuteo regalis. Gray, Cat. Accipitr. 1844, p. 19 ; id. and Mitch. 



Gen. B. pi. 6 (1849). 

 Archibuteo ferrugineus. Gray, Gen. B. p. 12 (1849) ; Cass. B. Calif. 



8,- Tex. pp. 104, 159, pi. xxvi. (1855) ; StricM. Orn. Syn. p. 40 



(1855); Cass, in BaircFs B. N. Am. p. 34(1860) ; Grai/, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 10 (18C9) ; Cooper, B. Calif, ed. Baird, p. 482 (1870) ; 



Coues, Key N. Am. B. p. 218 (1872). 

 Buteo californicus. Hutching, Calif. Mag., March 1857 (teste 



Cassin). 



