. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . white on eachside; sides of head and neck and breastbrown; the breast-feathers dark-shafted,becoming spotted and banded with whiteon the lower breast and abdomen, and passing into white, more orless banded with pale rufous, on the lower abdomen, thigh-coverts,and lower tail-coverts. In the young the feathers of the crown and nape have rufous orbuff edges, or the head is buff or m hite with dark shaft-stripes onthe crown ; there is a broad buff or white supercilium; the ear-coverts are partly or wholly brown; wing-coverts much mixedwith
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . white on eachside; sides of head and neck and breastbrown; the breast-feathers dark-shafted,becoming spotted and banded with whiteon the lower breast and abdomen, and passing into white, more orless banded with pale rufous, on the lower abdomen, thigh-coverts,and lower tail-coverts. In the young the feathers of the crown and nape have rufous orbuff edges, or the head is buff or m hite with dark shaft-stripes onthe crown ; there is a broad buff or white supercilium; the ear-coverts are partly or wholly brown; wing-coverts much mixedwith white ; and the lower parts are white or buff, with dark shaft-stripes on the throat, breast, and upper abdomen. Gular stripeswanting or very narrow. The passage into the adult plumage is gradual, in one stage arrow-head markings replace the stripes onthe lower plumage. Cere, gape, and base of lower mandible orange, teriniual portionof both mandibles black ; irides pale yellowish white in adults,brown in young birds ; legs and feet dingy orange-yello\\\. Fig. 91.—Left foot ofB. tee$a, 4. 364 FAI/CONID^. Length about 17 ; tail 7 ; wing 11-5; tarsus 23 ; mid toe withoutclaw 1-3 ; bill from gape 13. Distribution. Common throughout the greater part of India, inopen plains and cultivated country, in low scrub and occasionallyin high jungle, but not in hill-forest; rare in Malabar and LowerBengal and in Southern India generally, and wanting in Ceylonand in the Himalayas ; not rare in the desert regions of WesternIndia and in Baluchistan; to the eastward this species is foundthroughout Pegu and probably Xorthern Burma generally, extend-ing to Northern Tenasserim. Habits, 4c. This is a bird with a quick flight, compared byJerdon to that of the Kestrel. It may generally be seen seatedon trees or bushes or the ground, and it feeds on small mammalsand reptiles, frogs, ciabs, and insects. It has a peculiar plaintivecry. The nest is of sticks, without lining, and placed in a thicktree, v
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