BUTASTUR. 87 



Graij, Gen. BhJ, i. p. 30 ; Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 92; Hume, Rough 

 Notes, ii; p. 286 ; id. Sfrai/ Feathers, p.' 159; Murray, Rdhk., Zool, S,-c , 

 Siud, p. 115 (1873). — The Zuggun Falcon or White-eyed Buzzard. 



Adult Male. — Above umber oi' pale rufous brown, the feathers 

 margined paler, and with dark shaft-stripes. Forehead and a nuchal mark 

 white. Ear-coverts light brown, the feathei^s very lax. Lores white, 

 with elongate stiff hair-like feathers, the edges of the under man- 

 dible also with stiff bristles. Kump and upper tail-coverts rufous 

 brown, the rump with dark shaft-stripes, and the upper tail-coverts with 

 dark cross bars. Tail pale rufous, tipped with buffy white and crossed 

 with 6 — 7 indistinct bars^ the subterminal one black and broadest; 

 wing-coverts like the back, the median series mottled light brown 

 and whitish. Primary coverts dark brown, externally shaded greyish. 

 Outer webs of primaries dark brown, frosted over with ashy grey, 

 and broadly tipped with darker brown. Inner Aveb pale brown 

 between the black tip and emargination of the first four quills, and 

 white beyond, with a few faint dark incomplete bars. The secondaries 

 pale brown, half the inner webs, with 4 — 5 bars of dark brown and tipped 

 dai'ker ; outer web of the secondaries pale brown with a rufous tinge, 

 tipped blackish, and with faint traces of ti-ansverse bars. 



Chin and throat white or yellowish white, bordered on each side with 

 a black moustachial stripe from the base of the lower mandible, and 

 one of the same colour down the centre of the chin and throat. Breast 

 pale rufous brown, with yellowish white or fulvous spots, the feathers 

 dark shafted. Rest of under surface buffy white, barred with rufescent 

 brown. Under wing-coverts white, some of the feathers streaked and 

 spotted with rufous brown. Thigh-coverts pale fulvous or buffy white, 

 most of the feathers with a subterminal triangular patch of rufous 

 brown. Vent and lower tail-coverts white, some of the feathers with 

 a subterminal band or triangular patch of rufous brown; under surface 

 of tail feathers greyish white, the transverse band showing through in 

 all but the exterior feather. 



Legs and feet dingy orange yellow, L-is pale yellowish white. 

 Eyelid orange yellow. 



Length. — 16"75 to 18'5 inches, culmen 1*4, wing 11 to 12*5, tail 

 6-65 to 7-8, tarsus 2 to 2-15. 



Hah. — Sind, Beloochistan, Persia; Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh, 

 Bengal, Nepaul ; Behar, Kattiawar, Deccan, Concans, Cutch, Rajputana, 

 and N. Guzerat. 



Gen. Circus. — Lacej). 



Upper mandible slightly festooned ; lower emarginate. Nostrils 

 round, with no bony excrescence. Tarsi long and slender, naked ; 

 wings long; the first quill not so long as the fifth, the third or fourth 

 longest ; cere large, surrounded with a rufi* of setaceous curved 

 plumes. 



Circus macrurus, 8. G. Gmel. N. Comm. Petrop. xv. p. 439. 

 Circus Swaiutjonii, iSmU^h ^- Afr. Q. Jouni. i. p. 384; Gray, Gen, B. 



