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of which have their outer webs uniform brown, and the inner rufescent 

 near the shaft and white towards the margin, being barred with the 

 same brown as that colouring the outer web ; the coverts are slightly 

 edged and more largely tipped with dull rufous : the longer upper 

 tail-coverts are tipped with whitish ; and the tail is nearly of the 

 same brown with the back, but rather paler and more greyish, its 

 middle feathers having four broad dusky bars, the last subterminal, 

 and a rudiment of a fifth which becomes gradually more obscure 

 to the outermost : over and beyond the eye is a conspicuous whit- 

 ish streak : the under parts are rufescent-whitish, palest on the 

 throat and lower tail- coverts, which are without markings, except- 

 ing a slight dusky mesial line along the throat ; the breast has 

 a broad mesial dusky streak to each feather, assuming on the belly and 

 flanks more or less the appearance of transverse bands, which are unit- 

 ed along the shafts of the feathers leaving oval intervals of white, and 

 the feathers being externally margined with pale fulvous : tibial plumes 

 very pale buff, or with rufous central markings ; and fore part of the 

 under surface of the wings similarly coloured, the quills albescent un- 

 derneath and obscurely barred, but dusky towards their tips. Inhabits 

 the Tenasserim provinces, where procured by the late Dr. Heifer. 



The other Indian species of true Buzzard are — B. canescens, Hodgson, 

 upon the Himalaya, and spreading generally over the Upper Provinces 

 — B. longipes, Jerdon, found chiefly to the west, but also in southern 

 India — and B. rufiventer, Jerdon, peculiar (so far as known) to the 

 south. Mr. G. R. Gray, in his catalogue of the Raptores in the Bri- 

 tish Museum, evidently mistakes B. canescens for B. longipes. From 

 the description in the Diet. Class. , I suspect that the latter species is 

 the Circus pectoralis, Vieillot, (placed, however, among the * Buses,* 

 or Buzzards, not among the * B usards, 9 or Harriers,) in which case it 

 must rank as Buteo pectoralis ; but Mr. Jerdon, judging from another 

 description of the latter, is of opinion that it cannot be identified with 

 either of his species. 



The Circus teesa, Franklin, v. Astur hyder, Sykes, assigned to Buteo 

 by Gray and others, must now be referred to Poliornis of Kaup ; Bu- 

 tastur, Hodgson, J. A. S. xii, 311, sinking to the rank of a synonym. 



Hamatornis, Vigors (nee Swainson) ; Spilornis, G. R. Gray. The 

 distinctive characters of the species referred to this genus are at pre- 



