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the Ghats. It is, however, absent from by far the oreateat part of the 

 district. 



1203. Aquila yindhiana, Frankl. 



I obtained a single specimen of this eagle at Dasinkop iu the 

 extreme east of the district on the 7th March, 1890, and have once or 

 twice seen specimens, I consider to have belonged to this, also in the 

 extreme east. 



1205. Aquila maculata, Gmel. (Syst. Nat.) 



I have never obtained a specimen of this eagle. I have, however, 

 several times in the east of the district seen a dark eagle with some 

 white on its back and wings. They were in the neighbourhood of 

 tanks, and I have noticed them from January to May. This eagle 

 may, however, possibly have been A. hastafa^ which I have shot from 

 the nest in the adjoining Mysore ten-itory. 



1207. lilERATUS FASCIATUS, Vieill. 



I saw a single male specimen of this bird at the Gairsoppa Falls in 

 December, 1895. I saw it several times and possibly its mate may 

 have been sitting somewhere among the cliffs around. 



1208. HiERATUs PE^-NATUs, Gmel. (Syst. Nat.) 



Seen occasionally along the coast in the cold weather. I have also 

 on three occasions seen specimens above Ghats. 



1210. ICTINAETUS MALAYENSIS, EeinU. 



By no means uncommon along the southern portion of the coast 

 about Bhutkul, and occasionally seen all along the line of Ghats. 

 A female I shot at Manki on the 26th January, 1890, would have laid 

 in a very few days, and a fine male I shot near Bhutkul in December, 

 1893, was also breeding. I have, however, never come across a nest. 

 The bird is however a cliff- builder, and in Kanam cliffs are sun'ounded 

 by dense jungle and difficult to get at. 



1211. Spizaetus ciERHA'ius, Gmel. (Syst. Nat.) 



This eagle is common in the forests below Ghats, and also in those 

 to the east of the district. I have taken its nest several times, generally 

 in silk-cotton trees, and found in every case one egg or young. The 

 eggs were taken in January and February. 



1216. CiRCAETUS GALLicus, Gmel. (Syst. Nat.) 



Noticed occasionally along the coast and in Siddapur, in the cold 

 weather, and about Halyal in the hot weather, I have seen no signs 

 of this bird breeding, 

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