BUTEONIN. 5L 
rufous-white ; crown and occiput rufous-brown, streaked with 
dark hair-brown; a streak from the base of the lower mandible, 
widening so as to involve the whole ear-coverts, darkish brown, 
in some very dark; some of the feathers, commonly, very 
narrowly margined rufous; back, wings, scapulars, and central 
tail-feathers dark umber-brown; the quills and _ central 
tail-feathers darkest; the lateral tail-feathers paling as they 
recede from the central ones, which are unbarred, with four 
or five broad transverse, lighter and generally more rufous-brown 
bars, often more or less obsolete on the outer webs; the whole of 
the lower parts are light rufous-buff, with narrow, deeper 
rufous, shaft stripes; rump and upper tail-coverts mingled 
white, rufous-buff, and reddish-brown. 
“ Young male of the second year killed while undergoing his 
second moult.” 
The top of the head, and the feathers round the cheeks, a 
mixture of brown and rufous; ear-coverts grey ; occiput varied 
with white ; the nape, back, scapulars, tertials, and upper tail- 
coverts lead-grey ; upper surface of all the tail-feathers, except 
the two in the middle, barred with shades of brown and rufous ; 
middle tail-feathers, with the outer webs, uniform pearl-grey ; the’ 
inner webs with fine dark brown bands on a greyish ground ; 
wing primaries and secondaries blackish-brown ; greater wing- 
coverts dark brown; lesser wing-coverts lighter brown, varied 
with rufous and two or three grey feathers; chin, and front of 
neck, pearl-grey ; breast, belly, thighs, and under tail-coverts 
white, with a longitudinal rufous stripe on the centre of each 
feather ; under surface of tail-feathers barred with greyish-white 
and brown ; legs, toes, and claws, as in the adult male. 
A young male of the year: a narrow frontal band, a line above, 
and a patch below and behind the eye, and two broad patches on 
either side of the nape white, the feathers of the latter with 
brown shafts ; chin and throat whitish, bristles, at point of chin, 
black; the top of the head rusty-rufous ; the feathers with more 
or less narrow, lanceolate or linear, dark brown shaft stripes ; 
ear-coverts and a line extending to them from the base of the 
lower mandible dark brown, the feathers mostly narrowly mar- 
gined with ferruginous ; wings, back, and scapulars rich brown 
of different shades, palest on the upper back; rump, and lesser 
wing-coverts, more umber on the secondaries and longer scapu- 
lars, and greyer, except at the extreme tips, on the primaries; 
all the quills, the primary greater-coverts, back, rump, and scapu- 
lars, narrowly but conspicuously margined at the tips with rufous 
buff, or faintly rufous-white ; the lesser and most of the median- 
coverts more broadly margined with brighter rufous. 
The first few primaries silvered on their outer webs towards 
their bases, and with three or more irregular, dark, transverse 
bars on the inner webs, (which are mostly brownish-white above 
the notches), and faint traces of these on the grey-brown, outer 
