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1217. Spilornis cheela, Lath. 



By far the commonest o£ the hawk eagles in the district and found 

 at all seasons in all the moist forests, never being found far from 

 water. Its nests are hard to find, being mostly in very thick forests 

 along a stream. The form we get in Kanara is the smaller form with 

 faint barring on the breast called by Sharpe S. melanotis. An egg 

 believed to belong to this species was figured in volume 3 of this 

 Journal by the late Mr. Barnes. I think, however, some mistake must 

 have occurred as the egg is indistinguishable from eggs in my col- 

 lection of Perms cristatus, and is not nearly large enough for the 

 species. 



1220. BuTASTUR TEESA, Frankl. 



A migrant to the district found very commonly along the coast, 

 and very sparingly elsewhere, from November to March when it 

 disappears. 



1224. Hali/Etus leucogastar, Gmel. (Syst. Nat.) 



The white-bellied sea-eagle is very common along the coast and 

 some distance up all the rivers below the Ghats at all seasons. They 

 seem invariably to breed in the same nest yearly. At Karwar a pair 

 breed in the Caserina plantation, another pair at Karwar head, another 

 pair on a peak beyond Godhalli, while there are generally four pairs 

 on the various islands in the harbour. It is the same all the way 

 down the coast as far as Bhutkul. I have never been able to land 

 at Nitrani (Pigeon Island) myself, but I have several times sent there 

 for eggs, and the most I have ever received at a time has been seven 

 pairs, and the boatmen said there were never more than a dozen pairs 

 breeding on the Island. I have always got my eggs from there in 

 October, and even at that date many were much incubated. I have, 

 however, got eggs at Karwar as late as the beginning of February. 

 The bird brings a perfectly wonderful amount of food to its young. 

 At Gokern, where there used to be a large nest close to the bungalow, 

 the birds constantly an-ived with food, and the villagers declared had 

 a strong partiality to their chickens, and objected to their breeding 

 there. 



1226. POLIiETUS ICHTHY^TUS, Hoi-sf. 



I have only seen this bird about the small tanks at Yellapur and to 

 the east of Mundgode. It is shy and I only obtained one specimen, 



