FALCONIDiE. 



45 



Crested -brown Honey-Buzzard above transversely waved ; the 

 wings with an ashy-grey bar ; the tail black, with a whitish 

 fascia at the base. 



Falco ptilorynchus. Temm. PI. Col. 44. 



Inhabits Java and Sumatra. Length two feet ; 

 the females rather more : the occiput furnished with 

 a crest composed of six broad dependant feathers, 

 as in many of the Falconidae : the tail is long and 

 rounded: all the plumage of the upper parts is 

 bright brown, each feather being edged with paler 

 brown, and varied with transverse undulated spots : 

 at the junction of the secondary feathers the wing is 

 ornamented with a broad transverse band, of a beau- 

 tiful ashy-grey, marked with deeper zigzags, and edged 

 with black : the quills are rayed with bands of brown 

 and cinereous : the tail is black, with a broad whitish 

 band, marbled with brown, passing through all the 

 feathers at the base, and at the tip : the under parts 

 of the plumage are dull brown : the beak is black, 

 and the legs yellow. The young want the ashy band 

 on the wing ; all the feathers are rayed ; the tail has 

 three marbled whitish bands and three ashy-brown 

 bands : the head is pure ashy : the upper part of the 

 plumage is varied with dull brown and ashy-brown : 

 the long occipital feathers are black : the throat is 

 varied with black and brown, and the under parts are 

 ashy-brown spotted with white. 



GENUS XXVIII.— BUTEO Auctorum. BUZZARD. 



Rostrum mediocre, subde- 

 bile ; nares subrotundatae. 



7 am breves; acrotarsia scu- 

 tellata. 



Remex quarta longissima. 



Beak mediocral, rather weak; 



nostrils somewhat rounded. 

 Tarsi short ; acrotarsia scu- 



tellated. 

 Fourth quill longest. 



