MILYUS. ^'* 



Milvus cheela, apud Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. x, p. 71 (1839) ; nee 



Falco cheela, Lath. . ,.„, 



Milvus ater, apud Blyth, Cat. p. 31 ; nee Falco ater, 6rm. _ 



r. 'US- Hilme S F. i, p. 161 ; iii, pp- 35, 229; vu, p. 200; xi, 



S F iv, p. 299 ; Hume ^- Dav. S. F. vi, p. 23 ; Brooks, SF v m, 

 p.' im.Bmffluwz, S. F ix, p. 1^5- Oates S F x, p. 181 ; ^d. 

 S B. ii, p. 202 ; id. in mimes N. Sr E. 2nd ed. m, p. 176. 

 Milv\>? palJstris, Anderson, P. A. S. B. 1873, p. 143 ; zd. P. Z. S. 

 1875, p. 25. 

 Chll H • II. at Chamba; Malla gedda, Tel. ; Paria prandu, Kalu 

 prandil, Tam. ; Genda, Mhari ; 7?«>//i/«, Cing. ; Zoon, Burm. 



Fig. 93.— Head of i¥. gomndu, i- 



Coloration. Adult. Above browu, median wing-coverts lighter 

 and dark-shafted, the crown and hind-neck paler tawny or rutous, 

 not whitish, with blackish shaft-stripes ; a patch behind the eje 

 including the ear-coverts, uniform dark brown ; first five primaries 

 and larger primary-coverts blackish, later primaries and second- 

 aries cobured like "back; all the quills more or less mottled w th 

 whitish on the inner webs towards the base, and banded with 

 blackish-brown cross-bars; tail brown above, whity brown below 

 with numerous darker cross-bands, faint and obsolete m some 

 (probably old) bhds ; lower parts rather paler than upper, whiksh 

 at the chin, and generally, but not always, becoming tinged with 

 rufous on the abdomen and lower tail-coverts, and always dark- 

 shafted throughout, with pale or rufous stripes on each side ot the 

 dark shaft-lines ; lower wing-coverts hke breast, except the larger 

 coverts, which are ashy brown with pale bands. . ^.i,^ 



YouAg birds have 'broad buff or white shaft-stripes to the 

 feathers of the head (except the ear-coverts), neck, and lower 

 surface, and buff or whitish tips to the feathers of the back, wing- 

 coverts, scapulars, secondaries, and tail-feathers. _ 



Bill black ; cere and gape yellow in old birds, greenish grey in 

 the young ; irides brown ; legs and feet yeUow, pale greenish grey 

 in young hnds ; claws black {Hume). _ -. o r ^ 9.1 . 



Length of females about 24: tail 12; wing 18-5 ; tarsus 2 1 , 

 mid-tol without claw 1-6 ; bill from gape 1-7 : males are smaller- 

 length about 12-5; ^.ing 17-5. But birds from Southern India, 



