196 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



coverts buffy white, the latter with some brown streaks ; tail pale rufous, 

 with narrow brown bands ; upper wing-coverts mottled white and brown ; 

 quills brown, inclining to black at the tips, barred on the inner webs with 

 darker brown and tipped with whitish ; axillaries brown. 



The young have the top of the head and nape white, the former with 

 hair-brown shaft-stripes ; the stripes on the throat and its sides indi- 

 stinct ; tail less rufescent and the bars less distinct ; other parts as in the 

 adult. 



Legs orange-yellow ; claws black ; cere and gape orange or bright 

 yellow ; base of bill and gape orange or yellow ; remainder of bill black ; 

 iris stone-white or greyish yellow ; eyelids yellow or greenish yellow. 



Length 157, 16'5 inches; tail 6'4, 7*3; wing 11, 11-5; tarsus 2'4, 2'6; 

 bill from gape 1'3. The first measurements are those of the male. 



As far as my own experience goes, the White-eyed Buzzard-Eagle is 

 restricted to the northern portion of Pegu, from Thayetmyo down to Prome, 

 and to Tonghoo. Both Dr. Armstrong and Mr. Davison, however, procured 

 it at Thatone in Northern Tenasserim ; and it is therefore probably diffused 

 over the whole of Pegu as a rare species. Mr. Blyth states that it is 

 common near Amherst. 



It extends into India, where it is found over the greater part of the 

 peninsula. 



This species is found in paddy-land and low jungle, feeding on crabs, 

 frogs and small mammals. It breeds in India during April, making a nest 

 of sticks in a tree, and laying three bluish-white eggs. 



571. BUTASTUR LIVENTER. 



THE GREY-BREASTED BUZZARD -EAGLE. 



Falco liventer, Temm. PI Col 438. Poliornis liventer, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 9 ; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 50 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 31 ; Bl fy Wald. B. Burm. p. 61 ; 

 Armstrong, S. F. iv. p. 299. Butastur liventer, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. 

 i. p. 296 ; HumefyDav. S. F. vi. p. 21 ; Oates, S. F. v. p. 142, vii. p. 40 ; Hume, 

 S. F. viii. p. 82 ; Oates, S. F. x. p. 180. 



Description. Male. Whole head and neck grey ; the throat with an 

 admixture of white ; the crown and neck with dark narrow streaks ; 

 breast and abdomen dark grey, with the shafts darker ; lower abdomen and 

 vent rufescent grey, barred with white; thighs and under tail-coverts 

 white ; back and upper scapulars reddish brown with dark centres ; lower 

 scapulars chestnut ; rump and upper tail-coverts rather bright chestnut 

 with dark shafts ; tail chestnut, tipped with whitish and interruptedly 



