148 



breast pale rufous brown with yellowish 

 white bars ; abdomen nearly uniform buffy 

 white. 



241. Butastur Uventer (Temm.), PI. Col., i., livr. 

 74, pi. 438 (1827). [Java, type in Leyd. 

 Mus.] 

 Ashy Buzzard-Hawk. 



Size almost similar ; above brownish ashy ; 

 clearer on head, hind neck and wing- 

 coverts ; quiUs rufous, externally ashy 

 grey, barred with dark brown ; tail rufous 

 with 6 blackish bars ; below ashy, with 

 blackish shaft-stripes and a few whitish 

 bars on flanks. 



Indo-Chinese 

 Provinces, 

 Greater 

 Sunda Is., 

 Celebes. 



*242. Butastur indicus (Gmel.), S.N., i., p. 264 

 (1788). [ex. Lath.— /am] 

 Eastern Buzzard-Hawk. 



Larger ; wing <? 332, $ 345 mm. ; above 

 rufous brown, more ashy on head and 

 mantle, and rufous on wings, rump and 

 upper tail-coverts, which latter are barred 

 and tipped with white ; tail with 4 bands of 

 Idackish brown ; forehead and throat 

 white, latter with mesial brown stripe ; 

 feathers of hind neck with white bases ; 

 below barred with white and rufous brown. 



Ussuri-land, 

 Japan and 

 E. China ; in 

 winter to S. 

 China, Malay 

 Peninsula, 

 Phihppine Is., 

 Celebes, Borneo, 

 etc. 



243. Butastur rufipennis (Sund.), (Efv. Vet. 

 Akad. Forh. Steckh., 1850, p. 131 (1851). 

 \near Khartoum, type in Stockh. Mus.] 

 African Buzz£ird-Hawk. 



E. Africa, 

 (Egypt, Sudan 

 Abyssinia, 

 Kenya Colony, 

 Tanganyika 

 Territory). 



