CIRCUS BUTEO 509 



by dark brown, the crown and nape feathers with rufous margins, the ruff 

 of dull white feathers with brown shaft-stripes well defined, the tail grey 

 with blackish brown cross-bars, and the under parts white, the throat and 

 breast broadly, the abdomen narrowly striped with dark brown. The 

 young bird has the under parts rufous brown darker streaked, the nuchal 

 patch whitish, streaked with brown, the outer tail-feathers rufous in 

 ground colour and no grey on the wings. 



Hal. The eastern part of India; Burma; Mongolia; south- 

 eastern Siberia ; northern China ; Cochin China ; Siam ; 

 Malacca, and the Philippines. 



Affects the plains, especially damp swampy localities, and 

 rice-fields. Its food, like that of its allies, consists of reptiles, 

 frogs, insects, small rodents, and birds. Its nest, a somewhat 

 slight structure resembling that of C. cineraccus, is placed 

 on the ground, usually in a damp or swampy locality, and the 

 eggs, 4 to 5 in number, which are usually deposited in June 

 resemble those of C. cineraceus, and measure about 1*69 

 by 1-37. 



BUTEO, Cuvier (1800). 



721. THE BUZZARD. 



BUTEO VULGARIS. 



Buteo vulfjar'iSj Leach) Syst. Cat. Marnm. &c. p. 10 (1816) ; Gould, 

 B. of E. i. pi. 14 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. pi. 6 ; Hewitson, i. p. 38, 

 pi. xiv. figs. 1, 2 ; Newton, i. p. 109 ; Dresser, v. p. 449, pi. 

 331 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. i. p. 186 ; Saunders, p. 321 ; 

 Lilford, i. p. 16. pi. 9; Falco buteo, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 127; 

 (1766); Nauni. i. p. 3i6, Taf. 32, 33; B. plumipes, Hodgs. P.Z.S. 

 1845, p. 37 ; Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 180 ; B. japonicus (Temm. and 

 Schlegel), Faun. Jap. Aves,p. 16, pis. vi. vi.b. (1850) ; B.desertorum, 

 Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iii. p. 393 (partim, nee. Daud.). 



Busc commune, French ; Minhoto, Portug. ; Pellet, Arpclla, 

 Span. ; Pojana, Ital. ; Mciusebussard, German ; Buizerd, Dutch ; 

 Musvaag, Dan. and Norweg. ; Ormvrdk, Swed. ; Kaarmehaukka, 

 Finn. ; OWcnovennui Saritcha, Russ. 



< ad. (Germany). Upper parts dark earth-brown with a faint metallic 

 gloss and slightly varied with dull reddish brown, the forehead and nape 

 marked with dull white ; quills blackish brown on the outer web, the 

 basal half of the inner web white barred and marbled with brown ; tail 

 dark brown tipped with light brown, and barred with greyish brown ; 

 under parts dark brown marked and barred with yellowish white and dull 

 white, the throat and sides of head whiter ; beak blackish horn lighter at 



