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island ; and for its occurrence in the Galle district see ' Ibis/ 

 1874, p. 10. 



3. LiMNAETUs cRisTATELLus (Temm.) . 



This Eagle is common in the interior. I observed it in 

 the WellaAvay Korle, in the forest-belts lining the river. 

 These localities are the favourite resort of all the large Rap- 

 tors here. 



4. Spilornis bacha (Daud.). 



This Serpent-Eagle frequented the rivers of the interior, 

 dwelling in the magnificent forest-trees along their banks. 

 It was invariably to be seen seated on a great overhanging 

 limb, and when flushed would glide along over the sandy bed 

 to another perch a short distance off. In the space of a 

 mile, one day, I saw three examples. A presumably immature 

 male example of S. hacha"^, although the testes were as much 

 developed as in an adult which I procured on the Kirinde 

 Ganga, had a total length of 21*75 inches, wing 15, tail 9, 

 tarsus 3"5, mid toe 1*8, its claw (straight) '85. Iris yel- 

 low, with brown inner circle ; cere greenish yellow ; legs and 

 feet pale yellow; tlie throat and cheeks jet-black, with a 

 white chin, and longitudinal gular white streaks ; across the 

 fore neck, below the black throat, the feathers are tipped with 

 buff; the whole of the head-, occipital-, and crest-feathers are 

 broadly tipped with buff-white, adjacent to which they are 

 black, fading into fulvous next the white basal halves ; the 

 interscapulars, scapulars, and wing-coverts conspicuously mar- 

 gined fulvous grey, which is the most important immature 

 feature in the bird ; the centre caudal bar is 1 inch wide, and 

 its adjacent anterior and posterior smoky bars waved trans- 

 versely with white ; the junction of the latter with the subter- 

 minal black bar is indistinct, the black and the brown melt- 

 ing into one another ; the ventral white spots are circular, 

 but they possess the dark circling observable in the adult. 

 I presume this is the plumage of Blyth's S. spilogaster ; or is 

 this latter to be recognized as a valid species ? 



* In my paper in ' The Ibis ' of last January, where, at page 9, I speak 

 of Spilornis cheelo, it must be understood that the present species is re- 



