on Dr. Jcrdon^s * Bhds of India.' 183 



water aud carefully smoothed with the fingers, when they will 

 recover their shape better than might be expected. The smaller 

 Rallida are brought uninjured in peculiar cages, and are often 

 to be had of certain of the fish-dealers. Of birds that bite at 

 the fingers, as the Small Cormorant and even the Little Grebe, 

 it is not unusual for the bazar-dealers to break the lower man- 

 dible. I have seen even Chcetornis striatus (no. 441) thus served. 

 Small living Insessores have the primaries coarsely torn from 

 one wing, and often the tail goes with them. From all of which 

 various modes of mutilation the collector Tnust be prepared to 

 undergo some degree of vexation occasionally. But in the long 

 run he may procure a very extensive series of fine specimens in 

 all phases of plumage. 



Addenda et Corrigenda, 



MicRONisus soLOENSis (Ibis, 1866, p. 240) has been ob- 

 tained in the Nicobar Islands, according to Von Pelzeln (Reise 

 'Novara,' Vogel, p. 12). 



31. HiERAETUS PENNATUS. 



I have already remarked (Ibis, 1866, p. 241) that a rudi- 

 mentary crest is always observable in Indian specimens ; at 

 least I found it so in all which I obtained in Bengal, in one 

 which I shot near Moulraein, and in one or two South-Indian 

 specimens received from Dr. Jerdon ; but I cannot perceive a 

 trace of rudimentary crest in two mounted Nipal specimens in 

 the British Museum, received from Mr. Hodgson. The rudi- 

 mentary crest referred to resembles that of Sjnzaetus limnaetus of 

 Bengal, and also of many Bengal examples of Pernis cristatus; 

 and as the subcrested//zerGe/M5 averages a rather larger size than 

 the European H. pennatus, I do not think that it can be distin- 

 guished from the Australian H. morphnoides, Gould. Mr. Swiu- 

 hoe^s crested specimen of Poliornis poUogenys (Ibis, 1864, 

 p. 429) should here be borne in mind. Mr. H. E. Dresser 

 agrees with me in the opinion that the white-breasted speci- 

 mens of H. pennatus are adults, as in Eutolmaetus bonelli ; 

 whereas in Spizaetus limnaetus and S. cirratus the white- 

 breasted birds are the young. 



