BUTEONIN. 43 
p. 88; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 447 ; 
. Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 374; Murray’s Verte- 
brate Zoology of Sind, p.85; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India; Ibis, 1885, p. 57; Hume’s Scrap Book, p. 274, 
‘THE LONG-LEGGED BUZZARD. 
Chuhamar, Hin. 
8, Length, 20°75 to 23:5; expanse, 50°25 to 59; wing, 16 to 
17°6; tail, 9°25 to 105; tarsus, 3:2 to 3°75; bill from gape, 1°8 
to 2. 
$. Length, 22°75 to 25; expanse, 56°25 to 62; wing, 18:2 to 
19°75; tail, 10°18 to 19°75 ; tarsus, 3:2 to 3°8; bill from gape, 1:9 
to 2°08. 
Cere greenish-yellow ; irides pale dun; legs pale yellow. 
Young: head, neck, throat, breast, and belly white, some of 
the feathers streaked with brown, and dashed with buff; back 
and wing-coverts pale yellowish-brown, some of the feathers edged 
with rufous ; quills dusky-brown, whitish on their inner webs, and 
the secondaries barred; tail with the outer webs reddish-white, 
inner webs dirty-whitish, barred with brown. 
In a more advanced state of plumage the head and neck are 
rufescent-brown, with a whitish eye-streak ; back and wing-coverts 
darker brown, with a tinge of purple in the freshly-moulted bird, 
and many of the feathers edged with rufous; quills greyish on 
their outer web, with a dusky tip, and whitish internally, except 
at the tip, which is black ; tail pale rufous, or rufous-grey, with a 
darker subterminal band, and some indistinct bars, and ashy-white 
below ; beneath, the throat is white, with dusky streaks, and the 
rest of the under parts fulvous-white, with dusky and rufous 
blotches, forming a sort of gorget on the breast and a more or less 
dark abdominal band ; tibial feathers dusky-rufous. 
The adult bird is yellowish-brown above, and on the throat and 
breast, purest on the head and breast, and many of the feathers, 
especially of the back, with dark centres, where the lighter tint 
indeed is nearly lost; quills, with the outer webs, greyish, the 
inner webs blackish from the tip to the deep sinuosity, white be- 
yond ; wings with a large white patch beneath, formed chiefly by 
the inner webs of the quills ; tail reddish or cinnamon-grey, indis- 
tinctly barred; belly, vent, thigh-coverts, and under tail-coverts 
deep auburn-brown ; the line of demarcation between this and the 
lighter tint of the breast abrupt and strongly marked. 
The plumage of this handsome Buzzard varies considerably in 
all its different stages, and this has led to its being described 
under numerous synonyms. It still remains a vexata questio as to 
which isits adult plumage. The difficulty, as Mr. Hume observes 
in his Scrap Book, is the changes of the upper and lower surfaces 
vary in different specimens, some change first on the upper sur- 
face others on the lower, so that it is difficult to assign any chrono- 
logical value to these changes, 
* The Long-legged Buzzard occurs, as a cold weather visitant, 
