Rufous-winged Buzzard

SCI Name:  Butastur liventer
Protonym:  Falco liventer Pl.Col. livr.74 pl.438,text
Taxonomy:  Accipitriformes / Accipitridae / Butastur
Taxonomy Code:  ruwbuz1
Type Locality:  Celebes, Sumatra, Java, and India. Type from Java.
Author:  Temminck
Publish Year:  1827
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

BUTASTUR
(Accipitridae; Ϯ White-eyed Buzzard B. teesa) Portmanteau of genera Buteo de Lacépède, 1799, buzzard, and Astur de Lacépède, 1801, goshawk; “18. Buteoninæ.  Genus Butastur, Hodgson.  Buteo teesa, Auct., type. [Circus teesa, Franklin; Astur Hyder, Sykes.]  It differs from the true Buzzards in its less corpulent form, and general adaptation for more active habits: the tarsi are longer and more prominently scutellated in front, the toes also being scutellated above nearly to their base, and the talons are comparatively powerful. The markings also are somewhat peculiar, and recal to mind those of various South American Raptores; but still manifest a relationship to the true Buzzards, which is further conspicuously shewn by the rufous tail.” (Hodgson 1843); "Butastur Hodgson, 1843, Jour. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 12: 311.  Type, by original designation, Circus teesa Franklin." (Ripley, 1961, Synopsis Birds India Pakistan, p. 49).
Synon. Bupernis, Percnopsis, Poliornis, Valeria.

liventer
L. liventer  lividly  < livere  to be bluish.
● ex “Figuier à ventre gris du Sénégal” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 584, fig. 3 (unident.; ?Andropadus sp.).