48 FALCONID^. 



\vith buffy white and crossed with 67 indistinct bars, the snbterminal one 

 black, and broadest ; wing coverts like the back, the median series mottled 

 light brown and whitish. Primary coverts dark brown, externally shaded 

 greyish. Outer webs of primaries dark brown, frosted over with ashy grey, 

 and broadly tipped with darker brown. Inner web pale brown between the 

 black tip and emargination of the first four quills, and white beyond, with a 

 few faint dark incomplete bars. The secondaries pale brown, half the inner 

 webs, with 4 5 bars of dark brown and tipped darker ; outer web of the 

 secondaries pale brown with a rufous tinge, tipped blackish, and with faint 

 traces of transverse bars. Chin and throat white or yellowish white, bordered 

 on each side with a black moustachial stripe from the base of the lower man- 

 dible, and one of the same colour down the centre of the chin and throat. 

 Breast pale rufous brown, with yellowish white or fulvous spots, the feathers 

 dark shafted. Rest of under surface buffy white, barred with rufescent brown. 

 Under wing coverts white, some of the feathers streaked and spotted with 

 rufous brown. Thigh coverts pale fulvous or buffy white, most of the feathers 

 with a subterminal triangular patch of rufous brown. Vent and lower tail 

 coverts white, some of the feathers with a subterminal band or triangular 

 patch of rufous brown ; under surface of tail feathers greyish white, the 

 transverse band showing through in all but the exterior feather. 



Legs and feet dingy orange yellow. Iris pale yellowish white. Eyelids 

 orange yellow. 



Length. 1675 to 18-5 inches; culmen 1-4; wing II to 12-5; tai!6'56to 

 7-8 ; tarsus 2 to 2-55. 



ffab. Throughout India to British Burmah and Malaya to Assam and 

 Nepal. Recorded from Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, 

 Oudh, Bengal, Nepal, Behar, Kattiawar, Deccan, Concans, Cutch, Rajputana, 

 and N. Guzerat. 



The White-eyed Buzzard is plentiful in all the places where it is known to 

 occur. Not unlike the Kestrel its flight is very rapid, and living as it does on 

 rats, lizards, frogs, crabs, and insects, it is always seen flying low, skimming 

 along just above the ground. It affects bare plains, low jungle, cultivated 

 ground, and marshy tracts. 



Breeds nearly throughout India from January to April, nesting on high 

 trees and laying three eggs of a pale bluish colour, a broad oval in shape and 

 varying in size from 1-4 to 1*9 inches. Mr. Hume says the parent birds are 

 much attached to their nests and hang about them for many days after they have 

 been robbed, and at times will lay in them a second time. 



45. Butastur liventer, Tern. PI. CW.i.pl. 438. Buteo liventer, Cuv. 

 Regnt. Anim. i. p. 37. Poliornis liventer, Kaup. Classif. Sang. u. Vog. p. 122 ; 

 Wall. Ibis, 1868, 1 1 ; Hume, Stray F. i. 319 ; iii. p. 31 ; iv. 299 ; vi. p. 21. 



Adult Male. Whole head and neck all round are a pale earthy or grey 

 brown, the feathers darker shafted ; lores whitish ; chin and throat more or less 



