26 FALCON'ID/E. 



streaked with blackish on the chin arad less distinctly on the throat ; chest 

 almost uniform rufous with a black shaft stripe ; lower breast fulvous white, 

 irregularly barred with rufous brown ; thighs rufous with fulvous margins to 

 the feathers ; lower abdomen, vent, and under tail coverts creamy buff. 

 Primaries blackish ; secondaries paler with whitish tips and irregularly mottled 

 or barred with brown; tail brown with an indistinct purplish subterminal 

 band, a white tip, and 3 4 other distinguishable bars of darker brown. 



Length. -21-5 inches; wing 157; tail 9; tarsus 3; culmen 1*35. 



Aged specimens are everywhere dull smoky brown, the wing coverts and 

 scapulars lighter ; primaries dark brown, inclining to purplish brown near the 

 tips ; the inner web buffy white, barred with brown ; shafts whitish ; 

 secondaries like the back ; tail uniform smoky brown with whitish shafts and 

 pale whitey brown tips with obsolete remains of cross bars. Sides of face 

 and neck and entire under parts uniform smoky brown. 



Length 20 inches; wing 15-4; tail 9; tarsus 3. 



Hab. The Travancore Hills of Southern India, the Himalayas, the 

 Northern portions of the Tennaserim province of British Burmah, Nepal and 

 Sikkim and eastwards to China and Japan. 



Mr. Bourdillon in Sir. F. states that this is a winter visitor in Travancore 

 during December, January, and February, preferring high open country, where 

 two or three may be seen steadily quartering the ground and occasionally 

 pouncing on some mouse or lizard. As to the identity of this species with 

 plumipes there is still a set controversy owing to the very variable plumage of 

 the Buzzard in all their different stages. Messrs. Hume, Blyth, Sharpe, 

 Dresser, and Gurney have worked hard to find out the points of distinction 

 between the Indian species of Buzzards, but no satisfactory conclusion has yet 

 been come to. Mr. Sharpe has, however, in his Catalogue fairly well given a 

 key to seventeen species of Buteo from all parts of the world. I doubt 

 whether anything could be made of the Indian species. 



Gen. Archibuteo. Brehm. 

 Characters of Buteo. Tarsi lengthened and feathered to the toes* 



24. Archibuteo StrOphiatUS, Hodgs. ; Gray, Cat-. Mam. and B. 

 Nepal] Jerdon, Ibis, 1871, p. 340; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. B. M. p. 199. 

 Archibuteo hemiptilopus. Sly. J . A. S. B. xv. p. I ; Jerd. B. Ind* i. p. 94, 

 No. 49; Htime, Rough Notes, p. 232; id. Str. F. i. p. 315. Archibuteo 

 leucoptera, Hume, Sir* F. i. p. 318. The BROWN EAGLE BUZZARD. 



PLATE. 



Adult. Above rich deep fuscous brown, slightly glossed with pinkish ; 

 interscapulary region slightly darker ; scapulars and wing coverts margined 

 paler ; lores whitish ; sides of face and neck brown. Entire under parts brown ; 

 also the tarsal feathers, which extend to the root of the toes ; a broad irregular 

 band of white across the breast. Quills dark brown ; primaries shaded greyish 



