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No. 48 Bis. Poliornis Poliogenys. Trem™. 
Pe ClA826. 
Buteo Pyrrhogenys, Faun. Jap. VIL. 6. 
»  Lygmeus, Buyre. 
Tur GREY-CHEEKED Buzzarp. 
This species, first obtained by Dussumier, in the Island of 
Luzon, (Phillipines) and figured by Temminck as the “ Buse 
4 joues grises,” has now occurred on several occasions, in Sou- 
thern Burmah, and must therefore find a place in these notes. 
Temminck’s original remarks and description of this species 
are as follows :— 
“This little species of Buzzard is less than the Kuropean 
Buzzard by one half, and the beak is somewhat slenderer, and 
straighter, than that of this latter species. The long wings 
reach to within a short distance of the end of the tail, which 1s 
long and slightly rounded; the toes are nearly similar to those 
of the Cymindes Buzzards, (of Brazil ete.) or the Honey Buzzard 
of Europe; the tarsi, however, are long and slender, as in the 
Asturs; the beak, though smaller, is similar to that of the Honey 
Buzzard, but the feathers of the lores, and orbital region, are 
hair-like, as in other Buzzards, and the wing feathers are gradu- 
ated, as in the Common Buzzard. 
“The clear grey colour of the cheek feathers, and the white 
throat with the central ashy stripe, suffice to distinguish the 
adult. ‘The mantle is reddish brown, the shafts of the feathers 
being brown ; the quills whitish on the inner webs, and blackish 
towards the tips, are barred at wide distances, with little black 
bands ; the tail bears four, transverse, blackish bands, on a clear 
brown ground. The supercilia are white, mingled with greyish ; 
the breast is a uniform brown; the vent, flanks, and abdomen 
are pure white, broadly barred with reddish brown. ‘The base 
of the bill and the cere yellow, the tips of both mandibles being 
black. The feet probably yellow. The whole length 18°1.* 
The tarsi 2°7. A male only 16 inches in length, retains some 
of the feathers of the young bird, which shew that in the young, 
the lower parts are spotted with long brown streaks, bordered 
on either side with reddish white ; the breast is brown mottled 
with red, each feather with four, more or less rounded, white 
spots, the white predominates on the vent and flanks, where the 
brown bars, more or less regularly marked, are much further . 
* These are the English equivalents of Temminck’s measurements given in 
the old Paris, feet and inches. 
