10 THE BIRDS OF THE LUCKNOW CIVIL DIVISION, 
47.—Buteo plumipes, Hodgs. 
The Harrier Buzzard is only a winter visitor and by no 
means common. It may, however, be met with occasionally, 
two or three in company, beating steadily over dhak jungles 
and raviny and undulating ground. 
48.—Butastur teesa, Prankl. Native name—Teesa. 
13th January, Female-—Length, 16°75 ; expanse, 36°75 ; 
wing, 11°20; tail, 7°50 ; tarsus, 2°60 ; bill, from gape, 1:3. 
The White-eyed Buzzard is common at all seasons, and may 
be met with, generally in pairs, hawking over usar plains, 
dhak jungles, and along the undulating and raviny banks of 
streams; now perching on some solitary shrub or tree, now 
on a mound or telegraph post, but invariably repairing at night 
to some sheltered mangoe grove. It generally flies low, merely 
skimming the ground, and its flight at times is rapid and 
graceful. It frequently visits road-side railway station yards 
where the grass is generally long and full of grasshoppers, where 
lizards abound on the old rails and metal lying about, and where 
rats and mice are often abundant, both about the station build- 
ings and in the mud fence around the compound. 
51.—Circus macrurus, S. G. Gm. 
15th October, Male—Length, 19°25; expanse, 43°0; wing, 
14:75 ; tail, 10°50; tarsus, 2°50; bill, from gape, 1:30; weight, 
41°25 oz. 
The Pale Harrier is only a cold weather visitor, but a very 
common one. It arrives as early as September and leaves as 
late as the end of April, though the majority may be said to 
leave about the end of March. 
The flight of this Harrier is usually noiseless and slow, but 
it is capable of moving along at considerable speed, and of 
dropping instantaneously on its prey, no matter how fast it may 
be going. It may be found either singly or in pairs—occasion- 
ally in small parties—systematically hawking dhak jungles 
and patches of cultivation, evidently scanning the ground 
minutely as it progresses. On one occasion I saw it pursuing 
a Lark in company with a Red-headed Merlin (falco chiquera). 
The chase was both interesting and long as the Lark endeavour- 
ed to escape by ascending, but in an evil moment it made tracks 
for dhall field, and, though swooped at several times by the 
Harrier, it fell a prey to the active little Hawk. The former 
then attempted to rob the latter, and but for a friendly mangoe 
tope would probably have succeeded. 
