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on the neck the spots gave place to subterminal bars, and the longer 

 feathers were tipped with bright fulvous, forming a conspicuous collar ; the 

 feathers of back very dark brown, with a small white spot at the tip of each 

 web ; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts rich fulvous -brown, each 

 feather tipped white, and the rump-feathers with, in addition, indistinct white 

 ocelli on both webs ; scapulars and wing-coverts paler than in the adult ; 

 the whole lower surface white tinged with pale fulvous, the shafts of the 

 feathers rich brown ; a broad irregular hair- brown band across the breast, 

 barred narrowly with paler brown ; a few patches on the flanks turning 

 into the adult ocellated plumage; under wing-coverts light buff with 

 darker centres. 



Length 21- inches, tail 10'5, wing 16'5, tarsus 37, bill from gape 1'8. The 

 female is proportionately larger. 



Mr. Sharpe unites this species to S. melanotis of Southern India; Mr. 

 Hume keeps them distinct. Pending a settlement of the vexed question 

 of the number of species of these smaller Serpent-Eagles, it is perhaps 

 advisable to keep S. rutherfordi distinct for the present. 



Rutherford's Serpent-Eagle is generally spread over Pegu and Tenasserim; 

 it extends to Siam, Cochin China and China. 



This Eagle is tolerably abundant in swampy forests and wooded tracts. 

 It does not differ in habits from the preceding species. 



Genus BUTASTUB, Hoclgs. 



570. BUTASTUR TEESA. 

 THE WHITE-EYED BUZZARD-EAGLE*. 



Circus teesa, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 115. Poliornis teesa, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 92 ; 

 Hume, Hough Notes, ii. p. 283 ; id. Nests and Eggs, p. 49 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 31 ; 

 Bl. 8f Wald. B. Burm. p. 61. Butastur teesa, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. i. 

 p. 29o; Hume Sf Dav. S. F. vi. p. 19; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 82; Oates, S. F. x. 

 p. 180. 



Description. Male and female. Upper plumage brown with a reddish 

 tinge and with dark shaft-stripes ; the nape more rufescent, with a white 

 patch ; forehead white ; ear-coverts hair-brown ; throat white, with a 

 mesial dark brown stripe, and a check-stripe of the same colour on either 

 side ; breast dark brown with rufescent edges ; lower breast, abdomen, 

 flanks and vent brown, banded with buffy white ; thighs and under tail- 



* The "birds of this genus are not Buzzards ; but I may state that in difficult cases like 

 the present I have adopted the trivial names for the species of Birds of Prey given by 

 Mr. Uowdler Sharpe in the public gallery in the British Museum. 



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