A RCHIB UTEOHIERA ETUS 5 1 5 



Differs in habits from B. vulgaris, in that it is more a bird 

 of the open, rocky country, and does not frequent woodlands. 

 Its cry is the same but deeper and more melancholy in tone. It 

 feeds on lemmings, and other small mammals, frogs, lizards, even 

 insects, and also on young birds. Its nest is either in a tree 

 standing in the open, placed on the ground, or on a cliff or 

 rock, and is constructed of sticks lined with grass, and 3 to 4, 

 sometimes 5 eggs are deposited, usually in May or June, but 

 in a year when lemming were very numerous, fresh eggs were 

 taken in Norway as late as the 9th September. These re- 

 semble the eggs of B. vulgaris, but are often more richly 

 coloured, and measure about 2*25 by 175. 



728. HIMALAYAN ROUGH-LEGGED BUZZARD. 

 ARCHIBUTEO HEMIPTILOPUS. 



Archiluteo hcmiptllopus, Blyth, J.A.S.B. xv. p. 1 (1846) ; Blanf. F. Brit. 



Incl. Birds, iii. p. 395 ; A. strophiatus ; Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. 



p. 81 (1844 descr. nulla) ; Gray Cat. M. &c. Coll. Hodgs. p. 39 



(1846, descr. nulla) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. i. p. 199 pi. vii. 



fig. 2 ; Berezovski and Bianchi, Ptitz. Gan-su, p. 32. 

 $ ad. (Nepal). Upper parts brown, the feathers on the nape and upper 

 liiu-.k margined with rufous, the base of the nuchal feathers white ; upper 

 tail-coverts with rufous or buff bars and tips ; tail above brown, tinged 

 with rufous, below whitish, with dark bars ; under parts white, marked 

 with brown on the throat and breast ; flanks and thigh feathers brown ; 

 bill dusky horn, the base of the mandible laterally yellowish ; toes and 

 nuked part of tarsus livid waxy. Culnien 1'9, wing 19'75, tail ll'O, tarsus 

 3-45 inch. 



Hob. Sikhim, Nepal, and Kulu ; Shanghai in China ; Ordos ; 

 south-west and south-east Kan-su,and the Amdos plateau; Tibet. 



I find nothing on record respecting the habits or nidification 

 of the present species. Like some of the Buzzards it appears 

 to be subject to partial melanism. 



HIERAETUS, Kaup, 1844. 



729. BOOTED EAGLE. 

 HIERAETUS PENNATUS. 



Hieraetus pennatus (Gould), Syst, Nat. i. p. 272 (1788) ; (Naum.), xiii. 

 p. 58, Taf. 343 ; (Gould), B. of E. i. pi. 9 ; (Dresser), v. p. 481, 

 pis. 336, 337, 351, fig. 2 ; (Sharpe), Cat. B. Br. Mus. i. p. 253 ; 

 Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iii. p. 344 ; (Tacz.) F. O. Sib. 0. p. 25, 

 //. minutus (Brehm), Vog. Deutschl. p. 29, Taf. 2, fig. 2 (1831). 



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