Order FALCONIFORMES 
BUTASTUR TEESA. 
FamUy AQUILIDM. 
WHITE-EYED BUZZARD. 
Cmcus TEESA Franklin, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1831, p. 115 : between Calcutta and 
Benares, India. 
Circus teesa Franklin, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1831, p. 115. 
Astur hyder Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1832, p. 79 : Dukhun, India. 
Butastur teesa North, Rec. Austr. Mus., Vol. III., p. 87, 1898 : Lithgow, New South Wales ; 
Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 16, 1901 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., 2nd ed., p. 114, 1906; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 41, 1908; id., 
Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 248, 1912 ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 106, 1913 ; id., 
Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 106, 1914. 
Habitat. India. 
Description. Upper-parts brown with a rufous tinge and black shaft-streaks, a small 
white nuchal patch showing through the bases of the feathers. Upper wing- 
coverts mottled and obscurely barred with white. Primaries greyish-brown 
above with black tips and white on the inside towards the base, forming a 
distinct white wing-patch. Tail rufous above with grey tips and blackish 
subterminal band, and in closed tail two succeeding bars are indistinctly seen ; the 
outer tail feathers are greyish on inner web, becoming white towards base and 
bearing about five indistinct blackish bars. 
Throat cream with brown central line and brown outside lines bordering the cheeks. 
Breast brown with dark shaft-lines and whitish mottlings, the latter becoming 
predominant on the abdomen, the lower tail-coverts being unbarred ; the thighs 
are creamy with very small indistinct rufous-brown bars. Cere orange ; tip of biU 
black ; irides pale yellowish-white ; legs and feet dirty orange-yellow. Total length 
about 380 mm. in skin ; wing 285, tail 170, culmen 26, tarsus 60, middle toe 
without claw 35 mm. \ 
The above description of the genus and species should suffice for recognition 
should this bird occur again in Australia. 
When North added this species to the Australian List, he wrote ; “ Some 
time ago Mr. Richard Grant, of Lithgow, presented a skin of Butastur teesa 
to the Trustees (of the Australian Museum, Sydney), accompanied by the 
following note : ‘ With regard to this Hawk, I shot it in a ring-barked tree 
near the Bowenfels Road, Lithgow. I do not know the exact date, but as 
near as I can remember it was in November 1889. I skinned it, also some 
Brown Hawks that I shot the same day, and partly filled the skins out and 
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