147 
Rather larger ; wing 410-420 mm. ; above 
ashy brown, more rufous on head and 
darker and more chocolate on scapulars and 
wing-coverts ; primaries brownish black ; 
tail greyish-brown ; throat fulvous ; breast 
dull ochraceous, the feathers bordered with 
brown and streaked with white; flanks 
with black shaft-streaks. 
239a. Haliastur sphenurus johanne Brasil, Rev. New Caledonia. 
Eranc. dOrn., Jan. 7, 1916; p. ZO" (1916). 
[New Caledonia. | 
New Caledonian Whistling Eagle. 
[ =H. sphenurus sarasint Math., Feb. 29, 
1916. ] 
Smaller ; wing 370-410 mm. ; “‘ of a much 
lighter colour, especially on the upper 
portion of the head, neck and scapulars.””— 
NORTH. 
Gen. LXIX. BUTASTUR Hodgs. (1848). 
Type by orig. desig. Buteo teesa auct. =Circus teesa Frankl. 
Head not crested; nostrils oval, with a superior 
membrane ; size small (length under 20 in.). 
7*240. Butastur teesa (Frankl.), P.Z.S., 1831, pt. 1, Baluchistan, 
p- 115 (1832). [India, between Ganges and Kashmir, 
Nerbudda. | Indian 
White-eyed Buzzard-Hawk. Peninsula, 
Burmese 
Wing 3 297, 2310 mm. ; above palerufous Provinces. 
brown (with darker shaft-stripes), darker 
on head ; nape mostly white ; wing-coverts 
paler and varied with white ; tail tipped 
with buffy white, and with 6 or 7 nearly 
obsolete blackish bars, the subterminal 
broadest ; throat yellowish white with a 
line of black each side and down centre ; 
