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 ; 5 

 larger and with much less grey on head and 

 more barred below. Imm. : 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 Halt.] 

 Honey Buzzard. 



Larger ; wing$ 18.75 in. ; head, nape and band 

 round lower throat black, the nape 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) (J 17.25 in. ; 

 crest of lone feathers ; general colour deep 

 chocolate brown, with black shaft lines 

 below ; crown black ; sides of head grey and 

 scaly-] ooking ; 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 : huffish to white below, with broader 

 shaft -stripes. 



Pernis cristatus cristatus Vieill., Tabl. Enc. 

 Meth. Orn., p. 1225 (1823). [Java, type 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 



