89 



225. 



226. 



with white bases ; below barred M'ith white 



and nifoiis brown. 



Butasturindicus (GmcL), S.N., i., p. 264 (1788). 



[ex Lath.— e/a^^a.l 



Eastern Bnzzard-Hawk. 



Length ad. 16.5 ; wing 12.3 in.. ; above 

 cinereons brown with black shaft -stripes, and 

 riifoits margins to the feathers ; head and 

 neck darker ; least wing-coveits and quills 

 rufous ; tail with 3 or 4 blackish bands, except 

 on centre feathers ; throat creamy buff ; 

 below pale rufous, with narrow shaft streaks. 

 Bntastur ruiJ'pennis (Sund.), CEfv. Vet. Akad. 

 Forh. 8tockh., 1850, p. 131 (1851). [mar 

 Khartoum, tyjse in Stockh. Mas.] 

 African Buzzard-Hawk. 



Ussuri-land, 

 Japan and 

 E. China ; in 

 winter to S. 

 China, Malay 

 Peninsula, 

 Philippine 

 Is., Celebes, 

 Borneo, etc. 



N.E. Africa, 



(Egypt, 



Sudan, 

 Abyssinia, 

 Br. E. Africa, 

 " German " 

 E. Africa). 



Gen. LXI. TERATHOPIUS Less. (Traite, livr. i. 



[=Helotarsus, auct. jjlur.] 



Head with a crest of rounded feathers ; tail ex- 

 tremely short ; wings exceeding tip of tail by more 

 than length of tarsus. 



Length $ 25, wing 21.5, tail 5 in.,^^ length 21, 

 wing 21.2, tail 4.5 in. ; head and under parts 

 glossy black ; hind neck, mantle and tail 

 rich maroon chestnut, lower back paler ; 

 scapulars and quills black ; wing-coverts pale 

 bronze brown, whitish on shoulder ; under 

 wing-coverts white ; axillaries black ; bill 

 black, feet coral red. 

 227. Teratho'pius ecaudatus Daud., Traite, ii., p. 54 

 (1800). [Anteniquoi country, S. Africa.] 

 Bataleur Eagle. 

 [T. leuconotus (Rlipp.) is a synonym.] 



Febr., 1830). 



Africa (Cape 

 Colony to 

 Egyptian 

 (Sudan and 

 E. Africa ; 

 Senegal). 



