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Butastur

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Butastur is a genus of birds of prey in the family Accipitridae.

The genus Butastur was introduced in 1843 by the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson with the white-eyed buzzard as the type species.^[1]^[2] The genus name is a portmanteau of the genus Buteo introduced by Bernard Germain de Lacépède for the buzzards and Astur introduced by Lacépède for the goshawks.^[3] The genus now contains four species.^[4]

^ Hodgson, Brian Houghton (1843). "Catalogue of Nepâlese birds presented to the Asiatic Society, duly named and classified by the donor, Mr. Hodgson". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 12, Part 1 (136): 301–313 [311].
^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 349.
^ Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Hoatzin, New World vultures, Secretarybird, raptors". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 6 December 2022.