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apart than in the adult. It seems also that the bands on the 
tail are more numerous in the young than the adult.” 
Mr. Blyth remarks, in the Ibis for 1866, that this species 
was also obtained in the Phillipines, by the late Hugh Cuming, 
and that an interesting notice of it is given in the Ornithologi- 
eal report, accompanying the narrative of Commodore Perry’s 
exploring expedition to the China Seas and Japan. He adds, “a 
single specimen was procured by the late Dr. Helfer somewhere 
in the Tenasserim provinces, which I described as Buteo pyg- 
meus in 1845.” This description of Mr. Blyth’s, is a far better 
one than I could hope to write, and I therefore transcribe it from 
that treasury of ornithology, (and indeed Natural History gene- 
rally) the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. ‘ Length 
18 inches, or perhaps rather more; of wing, 13 inches, and tail 
8 inches ; bill to forehead (including cere) 0°94 of an inch ina 
straight line, and 1:25 from point of upper mandible to gape: 
tarsi, 2inches ; and feathered for nearly its upper third. Colour 
of the beak blackish, the cere and base of both mandibles, ap- 
pearing to have been yellow; legs.and toes also yellowish, and 
talons black. General hue of the upper parts, uniform hair- 
brown, the scapularies and coverts slightly tipped with rufous 
white: nape white, tipped with brown, and slightly edged 
laterally with rufous, which colour increases on the sides of the 
neck, and tinges the wings, the greater feathers of which have 
their outer webs uniform brown, and the inner, rufescent near 
the shaft, and white towards the margin, being barred with the 
same brown as that colouring the outer web; the coverts are 
slightly edged, and more largely tipped, with dull rufous ; the 
longer upper tail coverts are tipped with whitish ; and the tail 
is nearly of the same brown with the back, but rather paler and 
more greyish, its middle feathers having four broad dusky bars, 
the last subterminal, and a rudiment of a fifth which becomes 
gradually more obscure to the outermost: over and beyond the 
eye is aconspicuous whitish streak: the under-parts are rufes- 
cent whitish, palest on the throat and lower tail coverts, which 
are without markings, excepting a slight dusky mesial line 
along the throat ; the breast has a broad mesial dusky streak to 
each feather, assuming on the belly and flanks, more or less, the 
appearance of transverse bands, which are united along the 
shafts of the feathers, leaving oval intervals of white, and the 
feathers being externally margined with pale fulvous; tibial 
plumes very pale buff, or with rufous central markings ; and 
forepart of the under surface of the wings similarly coloured, 
the quills albescent underneath and obscurely barred, but dusky 
towards their tips.” 
