294 FALCONID^. 



lete whitish bars on the feathers ; upper tail-coverts brown, darker 

 before the tips, which are white, and having remains of rounded 

 white spots concealed or obscured by the brown colour of the 

 feathers ; tail pale brown, narrowly tipped with whity brown, and 

 crossed with two broad bands of blackish brown, one subterminal 

 and the other about the middle of the taU, a band of light brown 

 before the lower black band, and a broad band of whity brown be- 

 tween the two black bands ; bill leaden black, yellow at base of both 

 mandibles. Total length 25 inches, culmen 1*8, wing 14-o, tail 10, 

 tarsus 3'55. 



Young. Above brown, the feathers tipped with pale rufous, the 

 white bases very conspicuous, especially on the wing-coverts, which 

 appear lighter than the back ; head, which is largely crested, and 

 hind neck rufous, the feathers buffy white at the base, with a chest- 

 nut-brown subterminal spot ; ear-coverts and sides of face uniform 

 dark brown ; throat white ; rest of iindor surface of body fulvous 

 washed with rufous, more especially on the breast-feathers, which 

 have dark brown shafts ; under wiag-coverts fulvous, washed with 

 tawny rufous ; primaries dark brown, secondaries rather lighter like 

 the back, and tipped with buffy white, all the quills white at base 

 of inner web, and barred with darker brown, showing more plainly 

 underneath, as the interspaces are whitish ashy ; tail brown, washed 

 with rufous near the base, and slightly tipped with fulvous, crossed 

 with four or five bars of dark brown, the basal ones indistinct and 

 more or less dissolved into mottlings. 



Hah. Philippine Islands. 



a. Ad. sk. Manilla. J. Gould, Esq. 



b. Juv. sk. Cataguan. H. Cuming, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Juv. St. Mindanao. 



d. Ad. st, Philippine Islands. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



51. BUTASTUR. r^^^ 



Butastur, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xii. p. 311 (1843) B. teesa. 



Poliornis, Eaup, Classif. Siiiiff. n. Vog. p. 122 (1844) B. teesa. 



Bill of Butastur teesa. 



Range. From North China and Japan throughout Indo-Chinese 

 countries and Malayan subregion to New Guinea ; Indian peninsida ; 

 N.E. Africa. 



