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Butastur teesa, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xii, p. 311 ; Sharpe, Cat B. M. i, 

 p. 295 ; B lanf. Eastern Persia, ii, p. 113 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, 

 p. 19 ; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 199 ; Doig, S. F. viii, p. 370 ; Hume, 

 Cat. no. 48 ; Vidal, S. F. ix, p. 33 ; Butler, ibid. p. 374 ; Reid, S. F. 

 x, p. 10 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 195 ; id. in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd ed. 

 "ii, p. 158; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 44; St. John, Ibis, 1889, 

 ). 153. 



in, 

 P- 



Poliornis teesa, Kaup, Class. Sdugth. Vog. p. 122 (1844) ; Blyth, 

 Cat. p. 21 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 40 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 92 ; Hume, 

 Rough Notes, p. 286 ; A. Anderson, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 78 ; 1875, 

 p. 25 ; Hume, S. F. i, p. 159 ; iii, p. 31 ; Butler, S. F. iii, p. 447. 



The White-eyed Buzzard, Jerdon ; Tisa, II. ; Buda-mali gedda, Tel. ; 

 Yellur, Yerkli. 



Coloration. Adult. 

 rufous, the feathers 



Upper parts brown, often tinged with 

 with dark shafts; a white nuchal patch 

 formed by the bases of the feathers; 

 narrow forehead and lores white ; median 

 wing-coverts much mottled and some- 

 times barred with white ; quills brown 

 above, whitish beneath, pure white to- 

 wards the base, generally with dark bars 

 towards the tips ; the primaries with 

 blackish ends ; upper tail-coverts usually 

 more rufous than back; tail-feathers 

 either rufous or brown, with a rufous 

 tinge above, whity brown below, each 

 with a subterminal blackish patch, and in 

 most birds with narrow subch'stant black- 

 ish bands, which apparently grow indis- 

 tinct with age and disappear in old birds ; 

 chin and throat white, with three dark 

 brown stripes, one median, two others 

 forming a border to the white on each 

 side; sides of head and neck and breast 

 brown; the breast-feathers dark-shafted, 

 becoming spotted and banded with white 

 on the lower breast and abdomen, and passing into white, more or 

 less banded with pale rufous, on the lower abdomen, thigh-coverts, 

 and lower tail-coverts. 



In the young the feathers of the crown and nape have rufous or 

 buff edges, or the head is buff or white with dark shaft-stripes on 

 the crown ; there is a broad buff or white supercilium ; the ear- 

 coverts are partly or wholly brown; wing-coverts much mixed 

 with white ; and the lower parts are white or buff, with dark shaft- 

 stripes on the throat, breast, and upper abdomen. Gular stripes 

 wanting or very narrow. The passage into the adult plumage is 

 gradual, in one stage arrow-head markings replace the stripes on 

 the lower plumage. 



Cere, gape, and base of lower mandible orange, terminal portion 

 of both mandibles black ; irides pale yellowish white in adults, 

 brown in young birds ; legs and feet dingy orange-yellow. 



Fig. 91. Left foot of 

 B. teesa, |. 



