JOURNAL 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



Notices and Descriptions of various New or Little Known Species of 

 Birds. By Ed. Blyth, Curator of the Asiatic Society's Museum. 



[Continued from Vol. XIV, p. 602]. 

 Buzzards. Archibuteo hemiptilopus, nobis. Nearly allied to the Mexican 

 Arch, regalis, figured by Mr. G. R. Gray in his illustrated work on the 

 ' Genera of Birds' ; having the tarsi, as in that species, feathered to the 

 toes in front and externally, bare and scutated behind, and reticulated 

 for a slight distance on either side, the latter being hidden by the 

 feathers. Length, of probably a fine female, about twenty-eight inches, 

 the wing twenty and a quarter, and tail thirteen inches ; beak, from 

 point to gape, two inches ; and tarse exceeding three inches. Colour 

 (of the only specimen examined) a rich deep fuscous-brown, slightly 

 glossed with pink on the upper-parts ; the inter- scapularies shading 

 laterally to fulvescent : on the nape, the feathers are merely tipped with 

 dusky-brown, the remainder being pure white, which shews very conspi- 

 cuously : head mingled whitish and brown, the latter predominating 

 on the crown, the former on the lower ear-coverts and throat : from the 

 base of the lower mandible proceeds a large blackish moustache : breast 

 fulvescent, the feathers more or less largely tipped with deep brown ; 

 and the abdomen, flanks, vent, lower tail-coverts, with the long tibial 

 and the tarsal plumes, are of an uniform rich very dark brown throughout, 

 approaching to blackish : primaries dusky, paler above the emargination 

 of their outer webs, and the smaller primaries and the secondaries are 

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