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Rather larger ; wing 410-420 mm. ; above 

 ashy brown, more rufous on head and 

 darker and more chocolate on scapulars and 

 wing-coverts ; primaries brownish black ; 

 tail greyish-brown ; throat fulvous ; breast 

 dull ochraceous, the feathers bordered with 

 brown and streaked with white ; flanks 

 with black shaft-streaks. 



239a. HaUastur sphenurus Johanna Brasil, Rev. New Caledonia- 

 Franc. d'Orn., Jan. 7, 1916, p. 201 (1916). 

 [New Caledonia.] 

 New Caledonian WhistUng Eagle. 

 [ =H. sphenurus sarasini Math., Feb. 29, 

 1916.] 



Smaller ; wing 370-410 mm. ; " of a much 

 hghter colour, especially on the upper 

 portion of the head, neck and scapulars." — 

 North. 



Gen. LXIX. BUTASTUR Hodgs. (1843). 

 Type by orig. desig. Buteo teesa auct. =Circus teesa Frankl. 



Head not crested ; nostrils oval, with a superior 

 membrane ; size small (length under 20 in.). 



t*240. Butastur teesa (Frankl.), P.Z.S., 1831, pt. 1, Baluchistan, 

 p. 115 (1832). [India, between Ganges and Kashmir, 

 Nerbudda.] ' Indian 



White-eyed Buzzard-Hawk. Peninsula, 



Burmese 

 Wing <? 297, ? 310 mm. ; above pale rufous Provinces, 

 brown (with darker shaft-stripes), darker 

 on head ; nape mostly white ; wing-coverts 

 paler and varied with white ; tail tipped 

 with biiffy white, and with 6 or 7 nearly 

 obsolete blackish bars, the subterminal 

 broadest ; throat yellowish white with a 

 Une of black each side and down centre ; 



