50 FALCONID/E. 



It is said by Mr. Gates, (S. F. v. 141) to breed in British Burrnah during 

 March, laying 2 eggs of a pale greenish white colour without gloss. Size 

 i-Six i'45 inches. A second egg measured rS6 x 1-47 inches. 



46. Butastur indiCUS, Gm. S. N. I. p. 264 (ex Lath). Buteo 

 pygmseus, Blyth, ?. A. S. B. iv. p. 177. Poliornis indicus, Gray, Cat. Ace. 

 1848, p. 68. Poliornis poliogenys, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 30 ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, 

 p. 19; Hume^ Rough Notes, p. 290; Stray F. vi. 19. The GREY-CHEEKED 

 BUZZARD. 



Adult. Above uniform hair brown, inclining to ashy on the head and 

 upper back, and to rufous on the lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts, 

 the latter barred and broadly tipped ivith white ; forehead white ; sides of the 

 face clear grey sides of the neck ashy brown ; wing coverts and scapulars 

 slightly tipped with rufous white, or rufous brown, and mottled with clearer 

 rufous. Primary coverts rufous, broadly tipped with black. Quills rufous, 

 narrowly tipped with buffy white.; primaries brown externally and towards 

 their tips, also barred with dark brown on their inner webs ; the secondaries 

 ashy brown, inclining gradually to whitey brown, at their tips, washed with 

 rufous and barred with dark brown ; the lower surface of the wing creamy 

 white on the inner webs of the quills, somewhat washed with rufous ; tail 

 ashy brown, whitey brown at tips, and crossed with three or four broad bars of 

 blackish brown ; the lower surface ashy white, the bars showing more plainly 

 except on the outermost feathers, where they are obsolete. Throat white, with 

 a mesial line of ashy brown, as well as two not very distinct moustachial 

 stripes. Upper breast ashy brown, washed with rufous ; the lower breast and 

 abdomen barred with white and rufous brown, the rufous bars decreasing 

 towards the vent and thighs and absent on the under tail .coverts. Bill blue 

 black, pale on the gonys and lower portion of the base of the upper mandible. 

 Cere, irides, and feet yellow. (Sharpe.) 



Length. 17 to i8'5 inches ; wing 13- 12 to 13*15 ; tail 7*9 to 8 ; tarsus 2*4 ; 

 bill from gape 1*3. 



The adult female is larger than the male. Length i8 f S to i8'8 inches; 

 wing 13*6 to 13-8; tail 8-4 ; tarsus 2*45 ; bill from gape 1-45. 



The young is considerably different from the adult. The crown, occiput, 

 nape and sides of the neck are brown ; the feathers of the crown and hind neck 

 margined with creamy white and slightly washed with rufous. Forehead and 

 eyebrow creamy white, also the fore part of the cheeks. Breast buffy white, 

 with lanceolate rufous brown shaft stripes and spots. Under tail coverts 

 creamy buff ; also the under wing coverts, but with a few rufous brown 

 markings. Axillaries barred. Tail ashy brown, tipped with pale rufous brown, 

 and crossed with five bars of darker brown. Throat with a central dark 

 streak. 



