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The Harrier Buzzard was procured at Thayetmyo by Capt. Feilden ; and 

 Mr. Hume states that he has received a second specimen from the same 

 place. 



This bird is found over the whole peninsula of India and Ceylon, and, if 

 identical with B. japonicus, it extends to China and Japan. 



Capt. Feilden remarks of the bird he shot at Thayetmyo that he found 

 it in tolerably thick tree-jungle. The Buzzards are forest-loving birds, 

 and make their nests in 



Subfamily AQUILIN^E. 



Genus AQUILA, Briss. 



561. AQUILA BIFASCIATA. 



THE STEPPE-EAGLE. 



Aquila bifasciata, /. E. Gray in Gray fy Hardw. III. Ind. Zuol. i. pi. 17 j Brooks, 

 S. F. i. pp. 290, 326 j Bl. B. Burm. p. 63. Aquila nipalensis, Hodgs. Asiat. 

 Res. xviii. pt. 2, p. 13, pi. 1 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 507, pi. ; Gurney, Ibis, 

 1877, p. 222 j Hume, S. F. vii. p. 338, viii. p. 81 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 179. Aquila 

 mogilnik, apud Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. i. p. 240 ; Hume, S. F. iii. p. 25 ; 

 David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 8; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. p. 11. 



Description. Nearly adult male and female. General colour pale brown, 

 the scapulars browner ; upper tail-coverts white ; quills blackish ; the 

 primaries narrowly tipped with whitish ; the secondaries with broader 

 whitish tips and with some indistinct light bars near the end ; the tertiaries 

 variegated with fulvous-white ; the primary-coverts and most of the great 

 wing-coverts broadly tipped with fulvous-white ; tail dark brown, broadly 

 tipped with fulvous -white and indistinctly barred across. 



The above is the description of three specimens procured in Pegu, and I 

 think that most of the specimens met with in Burmah will be found to be 

 in this plumage. This Eagle does not undergo any very marked changes 

 from youth to old age. The perfect adult is characterized by a large buff 

 patch on the nape; and the young birds have the wing- coverts broadly 

 tipped with bright fulvous, forming two conspicuous bands across the 

 wing ; the larger coverts are also tipped with fulvous- white as above 

 described, and form a third band. 



Gape, cere and feet bright yellow ; iris dark brown ; eyelids greenish ; 

 bill black ; claws black. 



