THE BIRDS OF PREY OF THE PUXJAB. 



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B.— Birds in which DEEP RROWN predominates. 

 1. The Cinereous Vulture. 



2. The Griffon Vultures. 



3. The Steppe Eagle. 



4. The Tawny Eagle. 



5. The Lammergeyer. — 



6. Crested Serpent 

 Eagle. 



7. The Neophrons. 



8. The Kites. 



9. Marsh Harrier, $ . 



10. Buzzards (Buteo). 



11. Booted Eagle. 



12. Saker Falcon. 1 



13. Laggar Falcon. ) 



Q,— Birds in which BLACK {or 



more or less equally 



1. The Griffon Vultures. ^____^ — 



2. The White-backed 

 Vulture. 



V. L.; W. B.; T. S.; uniformly 

 coloured throughout. Beat of wing 

 very heavy and slow. 



V. L.; W. B.; T. S.; not uniform, 

 often patchy and streaked and 

 lighter towards the head (Young 

 plumage). 



L.; T. i\I.; not uniformly coloured ; 

 two parallel hues of whitish running 

 along each wing. 



L.; T. M.; patchy, one whitish line 

 along the wing sometimes, rather 

 faint. 



V. L.; W. L.; T. L., and wedge- 

 shaped, patchy appearance, head and 

 neck black (young plumage). 

 L.; W. B.; T. M.; Wings lighter than 

 body, one broad bar along whole 

 length of whig and another narrower 

 and less defined. A broad cross 

 band of whitish on tail, and another 

 near base of tail, less defined. Noisy. 

 M.; W. rather narrow ; T. S. and 

 wedge-shaped ; appearance streaked 

 and patchy (young plumage). 

 M.; T. L., and forked. 



M.- W. L.; T. L.; head whitish and 

 often a white patch near shoulder. 



M • W. rather rounded, long ; T. M., 

 silvery white along whole length of 

 undersurface of wing and across tail 

 (melanistic phase). ^. , ^ , -.^ 



M • W. & T. ample ; flight kite- 

 like ';' appearance patchy (melanistic 

 phase). 



M. to small ; W. lon^ and pointed ; 

 T. M. (first plumage). 

 DARK BROWN), and WHITE are 

 flittributed on xinderparts. „ , . , 

 V L • W B.; T. S.; Head, body 

 and' front portion of y^g^ dirty 

 Xte; primaries and Afcrgms of 

 le^ondaiL, tertiaries and tbe whole 

 of the tail black or blackish. (Adult 



plumage). 

 Back and upper parts grey biwn 



-- except quills. Similar to above 

 oS^smaller and the bla^k and the 

 whL more vivid. Back dark except 

 for white patch. 



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