*242. 
243. 
148 
breast pale rufous brown with yellowish 
white bars ; abdomen nearly uniform buffy 
white. 
Butastur liventer (Temm.), Pl. Col., 1., livr. 
74, pl. 488 (1827). [Java, type in Leyd. 
Mus. | 
Ashy Buzzard-Hawk. 
Size almost similar ; above brownish ashy ; 
clearer on head, hind neck and wing- 
coverts; quills rufous, externally ashy 
grey, barred with dark brown ; tail rufous 
with 6 blackish bars; below ashy, with 
blackish shaft-stripes and a few whitish 
bars on flanks. 
Butastur indicus (Gmel.), S.N., 1., p. 264 
(1788). [ex. Lath.—/ava.] 
Eastern Buzzard-Hawk. 
Larger ; wing ¢ 332, 2 345 mm.; above 
rufous brown, more ashy on head and 
mantle, and rufous on wings, rump and 
upper tail-coverts, which latter are barred 
and tipped with white ; tail with 4 bands of 
blackish brown; forehead and_ throat 
white, latter with mesial brown stripe ; 
feathers of hind neck with white bases ; 
below barred with white and rufous brown. 
Butastur rufipennis (Sund.), Cfv. Vet. 
Akad. Foérh. Stockh., 1850, p. 131 (1851). 
[near Khartoum, type in Stockh. Mus.] 
African Buzzard-Hawk. 
Indo-Chinese 
Provinces, 
Greater 
Sunda Is; 
Celebes. 
Ussuri-land, 
Japan and 
E. ‘Chinas in 
winter to S. 
China, Malay 
Peninsula, 
Philippine Is., 
Celebes, Borneo, 
etc. 
E. Africa, 
(Egypt, Sudan, 
Abyssinia, 
Kenya Colony, 
Tanganyika 
Territory). 
