296 • FALCOKIB^. 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female, but smaller. Total 

 length 16 inches, culmen 1-3, wing 11'7, tail 6-9, tarsus 2-5. 



Youmj. Above ashy brown, the feathers tipped with whitish, more 

 distinctly on the wing-coverts, the greater series of which have very 

 broad whitish spots and tips, contrasting strongly with the back ; 

 quills and tai^•■much as in the adult, but the latter not so rufous ; 

 head and hind neck ochraceous buff, the nape whitish, with narrow 

 central lines of blackish brown ; sides of face and throat whitish, 

 with faint indications of the moustachial line and throat-streak ; 

 breast buffy white, with numerous mesial streaks of dark brown ; 

 thighs, vent, and under tail-coverts white. 



Hah. Plains of India, extending eastwards to Assam, and west- 

 wards to Scinde. 



rangoutra, Himalayas. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.' 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 

 Capt. J. Hayes Lloyd [P.]. 

 W. T. Blanford, Esq. [P.j. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Butastur liventer. 



Falco liveuter, Tmnm. PL Col. i. pi. 438 (1827). 



Buteo liventer, Ctiv. Regtie An. i. p. 337 (1829) ; Temm. 8f Schl. F. 



J. Ares, p. 21 (1850) ; Schl. 3Ius. P.-B. Buteones, p. 21 (1862) ; 



id. Vog. Nederl. Ind. Valkv. pp. 32, 69, pi. 21. fig. 1 (1866); id. 



Revue Accipitr. p. Ill (1873). 

 Buteo pallidus, Less. Traite, p. 82 (1831). 

 Astur liventer, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. p. 34 (1844). 

 Poliornis liventer, Kaup, Classif. Saug. u. Viig. p. 122 (1844) ; Grarj, 



Gen. B. i. p. 30 (1849) ; Bp\ Consp. i. p. 18 (1850) ; Strickl. Om. 



Syn. p. 126 (1855) ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 19 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 16 (1869); Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 37 (1872); mime, Stray 



F. i. p. 319 (1873). 



Adult female (type of species). Above brownish ashy, clear ashy 

 on the head, hind neck, and wing-coverts, especially the greater 

 series, the shaft-stripes somewhat distinctly indicated ; ear-coverts 

 pale ashy ; upper tail-coverts also ashy, but strongly tinged with 

 rufous ; quills rufous, externally ashy grey, brown at their tips and 

 barred with dark brown, these bars disappearing towards the base 

 of the inner web, which is white ; secondaries ashy brown like the 

 back, more or less inclining to rufous on outer web ; throat whitish, 

 somewhat mottled with ashy grey ; rest of under surface clear ash- 

 colour, with blackish shaft-stripes clearly indicated, and remains of 

 a few whitish bars on the flanks ; thighs and under wing- and tail- 

 coverts pure white ; tail rufous, distinctly margined and tipped with 

 ashy grey, and crossed with six blackish bars, the subterminal one 

 being a little broader ; cere and orbits yellow ; bill yellow, the tip 

 black; feet yellow; iris pale yellow. Total length 17 inches, cul- 

 men 1-45, wing 11'8, tail 7, tarsus 2-65, middle toe 1-4. 



