THE STEPPE-EAGLE. 
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The Harrier Buzzard was procured at Thayetmyo by Capt. Eeilden ; and 
Mr. Hume states that he has received a second specimen from the same 
place. 
This bird is found over the whole peninsula of India and Ceylon, and, if 
identical with B. japonicus, it extends to China and Japan. 
Capt. Feilden remarks of the bird he shot at Thayetmyo that he found 
it in tolerably thick tree-jungle. The Buzzards are forest-loving birds, 
and make their nests in trees. 
Subfamily AQUILINJE. 
Genus AQUILA, Briss, 
561. AQUILA BIFASCIATA. 
THE STEPPE-EAGLE. 
Aquila bifasciata, J. E. Gray in Gray ^ Hardw. III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 17 ; Brooks, 
S. F. i. pp. 290, 326 ; BL B. Burm. p. 63. Aquila nipalensis, Hodgs. Asiat. 
Res. xyiii. pt. 2, p. 13, pi. 1 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 507, pi. ; Gurney, Ibis, 
1877, p. 222 ; Hume, S. F. vii. p. 338, viii. p. 81 Oates, S. F. x. p. 179. Aquila 
mogilnik, apud Sharps, Cat. Birds B. Mus. i. p. 240 j Hume, S. F. iii, p. 25 ; 
David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. S; Hume Sr Dav. S. F. vi. p. 11. 
Description. — Nearly adult male and female. General colour pale brown, 
the scapulars browner ; upper tail-coverts white ; quills blackish ; the 
primaries narrowly tipped with whitish ; the secondaries with broader 
whitish tips and with some indistinct light bars near the end ; the tertiaries 
variegated with fulvous-white ; the primary-coverts and most of the great 
wing-cbverts broadly tipped with fulvous-white ; tail dark brown, broadly 
tipped with fulvous -white and indistinctly barred across. 
The above is the description of three specimens procured in Pegu, and I 
think that most o£ the specimens met with in Burmah will be found to be 
in this plumage. This Eagle does not undergo -any very marked changes 
from youth to old age. The perfect adult is characterized by a large buflp 
patch on the nape ; and the young birds have the wing- coverts broadly 
tipped with bright fulvous, forming two conspicuous bands across the 
wing ; the larger coverts are also tipped with fulvous- white as above 
described, and form a third band. 
Gape, cere and feet bright yellow ; iris dark brown ; eyelids greenish ; 
bill black ; claws black. 
