113 



265. 



266. 



267. 



tail-coverts barred and tipped with white ; 

 tail paler brown, tipped with white, and with 

 3 dark bands ; below white, with brown 

 streaks on throat, large blotches on breast 

 and smaller spots on flanks and abdomen ; 2 

 larger and with nmch less grey on head and 

 more barred below. Imni. : head dark brown, 

 rufous on sides and hind neck ; tail more 

 banded ; below rufous brown, with distinct 

 black shaft -streaks ; later under parts become 

 barred with white. 



Pernis apivorus apivorus (Linn.), S.N., i., p. 

 91 (1758). [Europe — restr. type loc. Sweden 

 apud Hart.] 

 Honey Buzzard. 



Larger ; wing? 18.75 in. ; head, najieand band 

 round lower throat black, the najse mottled 

 with white bases to all the feathers. 

 Pernis orientalis Tacz., Faune Orn. Sib. Or., 

 i., p. 50 (in Mem Ac St. Petersb., xxxix., 

 1891). [E. Siberia, type in Warsaw Mus. 

 (W. Sclat.)] 

 Siberian Honey Buzzard. 



Slightly smaller ; wing (Java) (^ 17.25 in. ; 

 crest of Ions feathers ; general colour deep 

 chocolate brown, with black shaft lines 

 below ; croAvn black ; sides of head grey and 

 scaly-looking ; an imperfect line across lower 

 throat black ; tail with very broad central 

 band of pale ashy brown and broad terminal 

 and less broad sub-basal black bands, the base 

 brown mottled with ashy and white. Im- 

 mature : bufiish to white below, with broader 

 shaft-stripes. 



Pernis cristatus cristatus Vieill., Tabl. Enc. 

 Meth. Orn., p. 1225 (1823). [Java, tyi^e in 

 Paris Mus.] [^= P. ptilonorhynchus and P. 

 tweeddalei.] 

 Crested Pern. 



Europe, N. 

 to Lapland, 

 S. to Spain, 

 N. Italy and 

 Greece, E. to 

 Ural and 

 Asia Minor ; 

 in winter 

 S. to Africa, 

 cas. Canaries. 



E. Siberia ; 

 in winter to 

 S. China. 



Java, 

 Sumatra, 

 Malay Pen. 

 Siam ; 

 Borneo ; 

 Philippines 



