BUTASTUR. 47 



Adult Male. Crown of the head Mnck with an elongate occij)ital crest, 

 which is Mack with white bases to the feathers. Feathers <>f the nape with 

 slightly rufous tips ; sides of the face and throat clear bluish grey, of the neck 

 and chest uniform pale brown. Above pale brown with indistinct margins of 

 fulvous brown to the feathers, the scapulars slightly tipped with white, the 

 upper tail coverts broadly so, and the wing coverts with two white spots at the 

 tip of each feather. Quills ashy brown, tipped with buiTy white, and with a 

 broad subterminal and basal blackish brown band. Tail dark brown, tipped 

 with buffy white, and crossed with a broad median band of pale whitey brown 

 shaded with ashy. Under surface of body pale brown spotted with white ; on 

 the thighs and under tail coverts the spots take the form of bars ; under wing 

 coverts the same, but paler and more rufescent. 



Length. 21 inches; culmcn r8 ; wing 14; tail 8'8 ; tarsus 3-25 (Cat. 

 Ace. B. jlf.) 



The young female is described by Sharpe as pale brown above, with lighter 

 margins. Crown of the head white with a black terminal spot ; the body below 

 pale brown ; the throat and chest vermiculated with cross lines of dark brown, 

 with a few white spots on the abdomen, turning to bars on the thighs and 

 under tail coverts. Tail brown at base with two broad black bands, the basal 

 one with slight indications of a whitish band immediately preceding the lower 

 of the two and a broad subterminal whitey brown band. 



Length. 24-$ inches; wing 14*3; tail 9 4; tarsus 3. 



Hab. The Malay Peninsula, Tennaserim, British Burmah, Borneo, Sarawak. 

 This is a doubtful Indian species, but I have given a description of it owing 

 to two skins, received from Mr. E. Whimper, being labelled Tennaserim and 

 British Burmah. 



Gen. ButastUf, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xii. p. 311. 



Bill short. Edge of mandible scarcely festooned ; nostrils small, oval, with 

 a superior membrane. Wings reaching nearly to end of tail ; 3rd and 4th 

 quills subequal and longest ; the first four emarginate. 



44. Butastur teesa, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xii. p. 31 1 (1843) . Sharpy 



Cat. Ace. p. 295 ; Murray, Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 87. Poliornis teesa, Kaup. 

 Class! f. Saug. u. Vog. p. 122 ; Gray, Gen. Bird, \. p. 30 ; Jerd. B. of 

 Ind. i. p. 92, No. 48; Hume, Rough Notes, ii p. 286; id. Stray Feathers, 

 p. 159 ; Murray, Ifdbk. Zool. fyc. Sind, p. 1 15 (1873). The ZUGGUN FALCON 

 or WHITE-EYKD BUZZARD. 



Adult Male. Above timber or pale rufous brown, the feathers margined 

 paler, and with dark shaft stripes. Forehead and a nuchal mark white. Ear 

 coverts light brown, the feathers very lax. Lores white, with elongate stiff 

 hair-like feathers, the edges of the under mandible also with stiff bristles. 

 Rump and upper tail coverts rufous brown, the rump with dark shaft stripes, 

 and the upper tail coverts with dark cross bars. Tail pale rufous, tipped 



