BUT ASTUR ARCHIBUTEO 



I do not find anything on record respecting the habits of 

 this species, except that the Abbe David states that it breeds 

 regularly in the mountains near Pekin, that its flight is swift 

 -and easy, unlike that of the true Buzzards, and that its cry 

 consists of two notes and is also quite characteristic. 



Mr. Alan Owston of Yokohama says that it breeds at Fuji, 

 the Sagami Hills, Oiso, Fukushima, and Iwaki in Japan, 

 nesting on " Momi," " Momiso," and pine trees, at 20 to 150 

 feet from the ground, and that he received its eggs, 4 in 

 number, taken from the 16th to the 20th May. 



ARCHIBUTEO, Brehm, 1828. 

 727. ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 

 ARCHIBUTEO LAGOPUS. 



Archibuteo lagopus (GmeL), Syst. Nat. i. p. 260 (1788) ; Naum. i. p. 359 

 Taf. 34 ; (Hewitson), i. p. 39, pi. xiv. fig. 3 ; (Gould), B. of E. i. 

 pi. 15 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit. i. pi. viii. ; (Newton), i. p. 115 ; Dresser, 

 v. p. 471, pis. 334, 335 ; Sharpe, CaJ. B. Br. Mus. i. p. 196 ; Tacz. 

 F. 0. Sib. 0. p. 56 ; (Saunders), p. 323 ; Kidgway, p. 240 ; Lilford, 

 i. p. 19, pi. 10; Newton, Ootheca Wolleyana, i. p. 121, pis. v, vi. 



Btise pattue, French; Poiana calzata, Ital. ; Rauhfuss-Bussard, 

 German ; Ruigpoot Buizerd, Dutch ; Laaderibenet Musevaagc, 

 Dan. ; Fjeldvaage, Norw. ; Fjellvrdk, Swed. ; Poaimas, Biekkan, 

 Lapp. ; Piekana, Finn. ; Kaniuk machnogii, Russ. 



ad. (Sweden). Crown and nape creamy white, boldly striped and 

 blotched with dark brown ; upper parts dark brown, marked with creamy 

 white and pale rufous, the lower back and rump almost uniform dark 

 brown ; quills dark brown, the basal half of the inner web white ; tail 

 white, becoming greyish towards the end, cross barred with blackish brown ; 

 throat and upper breast brown, varied with pale rufous and creamy white ; 

 lower breast creamy white, sparingly barred with dark brown ; rest of the 

 under parts with the legs white, tinged with rufous, and boldly barred with 

 blackish brown ; tarsus feathered in front and on the sides to the base of 

 .the toes ; bill blackish horn, bluish at the base ; feet yellow ; iris brown. 

 Oulmen 1-4, wing 17'0, tail 9*5, tarsus 2'8 inch. Female similar, but rather 

 larger. The young bird is darker, and has the throat, breast, and belly 

 striped, not barred, the lower parts almost uniform dark brown. 



Hob. Northern Europe and Asia, breeding from 56 N. lat. 

 up to the extreme north in Europe, and Kamchatka in Asia ; 

 in winter and on passage visiting Great Britain, Central, and 

 even Southern Europe, Southern Siberia and Japan ; has 

 occurred in Alaska. 



