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weather visitor to the Peninsula of India. In winter it has 

 occasionally been met with in Ceylon, and also at Thayet Myo in 

 Pegu and at Thatone in Tenasserim. 



Habits, <Sfc. Very similar to those of B. ferox, except that the 

 Common Buzzard is chiefly found in the open parts of woodland 

 hilly countries. The nest has not been taken within Indian limits ; 

 both nest and eggs are very similar to those of B. ferox. 



Genus ARCHIBUTEO, Brehm, 1828. 



Precisely the same as Buteo, except that the tarsus is feathered 

 in front throughout to the base of the toes, though naked and 

 with large transverse scutellaa behind. The distinction is convenient, 

 but is scarcely of generic importance. 



Pour nearly allied species are recorded, of which one occurs 

 occasionally in the higher Himalayas. 



1242. Archibuteo henriptilopus. The Himalayan 

 Hough-legged Buzzard. 



HemiaBtus strophiatus, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844), 



descr. nulla. 

 Archibuteo strophiatus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. fyc. Coll. Hodq s. p. 39 



(descr. nulla); Jerdon, Ibis, 1871, p. 340 j Sharpe, Cat. *B. M. i, 



p. 199, pi. vii, fig. 2 ; Brooks. J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. 2, p. 242 ; id. 



S. F. iv, p. 272. 

 Archibuteo hemiptilopus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 1 (1846) ; id. Cat. 



p. 28 ; Horsf. 8f M. Cat. i, p. 383 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 94 ; Hume, 



Rough Notes, p. 292 ; id. S. F. i, p. 315 ; iv, p. 369 ; id. Cat. no. 49; 



Gurney, Ibis, 1876, p. 370 ; 1879, p. 178. 

 Archibuteo cryptogenys, Hodgson, Calc. Jour. N. H. viii. p. 96, pi. 3, 



fig. 1 (1848). 

 Archibuteo leucoptera, Hume, S. F. i, p. 318. 



The Brown Eagle Buzzard, Jerdon. 



Coloration very similar to that of Buteo leucocephalus. Upper 

 parts brown, feathers of nape and upper back broadly edged with 

 rufous, a few of the wing-coverts the same in some specimens ; 

 upper tail-coverts with rufous or buff tips and bars, bases of nuchal 

 feathers white ; quills as in Buteo ferox ; tail brown above, sometimes 

 pale rufous in part, whitish below, barred darker; lower parts 

 brown, with or without rufous, or white with brown spots on the 

 throat and breast ; flanks and thigh-coverts always brown. When 

 the lower parts are brown, the middle of the breast is often white 

 or rufous. 



One specimen is dark chocolate-brown throughout, there is 

 scarcely any white even on the bases of the primaries, and pale 

 bands only on the basal portion of the tail. Another described by 

 Mr. Gurney was rufous on the tail and lower parts, the lower 

 breast and abdomen transversely barred with rufous and dark 

 brown. 



