BIRDS OJF TENASSEMM. 19 



A young bird, said to be a female, of this species was shot at 

 Thatone on the 11th February, by some of my people, workino- 

 under Mr. Davis' charge. 



Wing, 15'5 ; tarsus, 2'7 ; bare front of tarsus, 1'5. 



The upper surface is a pale wood brown ; the edges of the 

 feathers from being abraded appear much lighter; the lower 

 surface is a dirty white, mottled with longitudinal brown spots ; 

 the sides and middle of the abdomen darker brown than the 

 back ; the lower abdomen, vent, and lower tail-coverts 

 pure white* 



The tibial plumes have the characteristic barrings of the 

 Buzzards. 



48.— Butastur teesa, Frankl. (3). 



(TongTioo, Earns.) That"ne; Amherst. 



[I never once saw this species in Tenasserim.— W. D.] 



Our only specimens were procured at Amherst by Dr. 



Armstrong and by Mr. Davis at Thatone, but it is not very 



rare in the country west of the Sittang. 



48 fo's.— -Butastur indicus^ Gm. (5.) 



Amherst ; Mergui ; Pakchan ; Bankasoon. 



Not common even in the extreme south of the province * a 

 rare straggler to the lower central portions. 



[ I had but scant opportunity of observing the habits of this 

 bird, but from the little I did observe of it, it seemed to be of 

 a confiding and somewhat indolent disposition, preferring to 

 seat itself on some dry tree or other point of vantage, from 

 whence it keeps a look-out for lizards, locusts, &c, of which its 

 food seems principally to consist, as I found from an examina- 

 tion of the stomachs of those I lulled. — W. D.] 



This is very like B. teesa, but larger, and the adults always 

 to be distinguished by the grey tint of the ear-coverts and the 

 sides of the neck and head behind the ear-coverts and eyes, and 

 also by the comparatively broad barrings on the tail. The fol- 

 lowing are the dimensions, &c, of adults : — 



Males— Length, 17 to 17*25 ; expanse, 40; tail, 7*75 to 7-8 • 

 wing, 1S'12 to 13-75 ; tarsus, 2'15 to 225; bill from gape, 1*3 

 to l - 35 ; weight, 1*2 ozs. 



Female. — Length, 18; expanse, 39; tail, 7" 75; wing, 1325 ; 

 tarsus, 2*25 • bill from gape, 1'45. 



The irides bright yellow ; legs and feet bright yellow ; claws 

 black ; cere, gape, greater portion of lower mandible, upper 

 mandible to 0*25 beyond nostril, and eye-shelf, orange yellowy 

 rest of bill, black. 



