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Mr. Swinhoe, in the Ibis for 1864, notices the occurrence of 
this species in Formosa, and makes the following remarks in 
regard to his specimen : 
‘« Bill blue black, pale on the gonys and lower portion of base 
of upper mandible; cere and over the eye dull olive green ; 
eyelids and commissure-angle gamboge ;* legs and toes of a 
deep rich chrome-yellow; claws black, more or less patched 
with pale brown, chiefly about their middle portions. Total 
length, 16°5 inches; tail, 9 inches; of twelve even feathers, 
obtuse at the ends, and somewhat graduated outwardly, so as 
to give the tail a rounded appearance when expanded; wing, 
9°25 inches, the fourth and fifth quills equal and longest. 
Margin of bill with a single deep festoon on each side. Ap- 
pearance of bird, between Buzzard and Sparrow Hawk ; so that 
Hodgson’s generic name, Butastur, is very aptly applied to it. 
Some feathers of the hind head long and subacuminate, forming 
a crest protruding about half an inch.” 
I have never myself seen this species alive, and have no notes 
in regard to its habits or nidification. 
No. 49. Archibuteo Hemiptilopus, Bryru. 
THE Brown Eacre Buzzarp. 
Nothing appears to be known in regard to the nidification of 
this species, of which only three or four specimens are, I believe, 
in existence. 
Dr. Jerdon’s description and dimensions are taken from Mr. 
Blyth’s notice, in the J. A. S. Mr. Blyth had only seen a single 
specimen, so that, as in most species of Buzzards, we may ex- 
pect to meet with other examples, in very different stages of 
plumage. The dimensions given, are those of this single speci- 
men, “ probably,” says Mr. Blyth, “‘a fine female,” and the 
males will consequently, if this was a female, prove considera- 
bly smaller. 
In regard to the breeding of the nearly allied European spe- 
cies, 4. Lagopus, the only notice I have met with, is the follow- 
ing, in Yarrell’s British Birds. ‘“ According to M. Temminck, 
this bird generally builds on high trees, and lays three or four 
eggs. A coloured figure of the egg will be found in the first 
part of Dr. Thieneman’s work on the Eggs of the Birds of Eu-- 
rope, tab. III, fig. 2: this representation is two inches two 
* In the Ibis, for 1868, he gives the “iris bright clear yellow with a 
black outer circle. 
