THE WHITE-EYED BUZZARD-EAGLE. 195 
on the neck the spots gave place to subterminal bars^ and the longer 
feathers were tipped with bright fulvous^ forming a conspicuous collar ; the 
feathers of back very dark brown_, with a small white spot at the tip of each 
web; lower back^ rump and upper tail-coverts rich fulvous -brown_, each 
feather tipped white^ and the rump-feathers withjin addition_, indistinct white 
ocelli on both webs ; scapulars and wing-coverts paler than in the adult ; 
the whole lower surface white tinged with pale fulvous^ the shafts of the 
feathers rich brown ; a broad irregular hair-brown band across the breast_^ 
barred narrowly with paler brown ; a few patches on the flanks turning 
into the adult ocellated plumage ; under wing-coverts light buff with 
darker centres. 
Length 24 inches_, tail lO'S^ wing 16'5_, tarsus 3'7; bill from gape 1*8. The 
female is proportionately larger. 
Mr. Sharpe unites this species to S. melanotis of Southern India ; Mr. 
Hume keeps them distinct. Pending a settlement of the vexed question 
of the number of species of these smaller Serpent-Eagles^ it is perhaps 
advisable to keep S. rutherfordi distinct for the present. 
Hutherford^s Serpent-Eagle is generally spread over Pegu and Tenasserim ; 
it extends to Siam^ Cochin China and China. 
This Eagle is tolerably abundant in swampy forests and wooded tracts. 
It does not differ in habits from the preceding species. 
Genus BUTASTUR, Hodgs, 
570. BUTASTUE TEEBA. 
THE WHITE-EYED BUZZAED-EAGLE->^-. 
Circus teesa, FranU. P. Z. 8. 1831, p. 115. Poliornis teesa, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 92 ; 
Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 283 ; id. Nests and Eggs, p. 49 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 31 ; 
Bl. Sf Wnld. B. Burm. p. 61. Butastur teesa, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. Mus. i. 
p. 295 5 Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p, 19 ; Hu7ne, S. F. viii. p. 82 ; Oates, S. F. x. 
p. 180. 
Description. — Male and female. Upper plumage brown with a reddish 
tinge and with dark shaft-stripes ; the nape more rufescent^ w4th a white 
patch ; forehead white ; ear- coverts hair-brown ; throat whitc_, with a 
mesial dark brown stripe^ and a cheek-stripe of the same colour on either 
side ; breast dark brown with rufescent edges ; lower breast^ abdomen^ 
flanks and vent brown_, banded with buffy white ; thighs and under tail- 
* Tke Hrds of this genus are not Buzzards ; but I may state that in difficult cases like 
the present I have adopted the trivial names for the species of Birds of Prey given Ibj 
Mr. Bowdler Sharpe in the public gallery in the British Museum. 
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