462 PANDION HALIAETUS. 



shafts are strong, elastic towards the end, being broader 

 than thick. The tail is rather long, nearly even, of 

 twelve broad, rounded, acuminate feathers. 



The bill is black ; the cere on both mandibles lead- 

 coloured. Iris rich yellow. Feet pale greenish-blue, 

 approaching to apple-green ; the edges of the digital 

 scutella pink ; the soles tinged with pink ; the claws 

 black. The feathers of the head are white, with a 

 brownish-black lanceolate mark along the centre ; those 

 of the occiput and upper part of hind neck white, with 

 pale sienna tips. There is a black band anterior to 

 and over the eye ; and a broad band of the same colour 

 passes from behind the eye down the neck, meeting 

 that of the other side behind. The feathers of the up- 

 per parts are blackish-brown tinged with purple, and 

 tipped with yellowish- white. The tail is greyish- 

 brown ; the middle feathers with six, the lateral with 

 eight, broad bands of brownish-black ; the shafts 

 brownish-white ; the tips light sienna ; the inner webs 

 whitish in the intervals of the bands. The quills are 

 similarly banded on the inner web ; the outer four 

 purplish-black, the rest brown. The lower parts are 

 white. The throat with longitudinal dark lines ; the 

 lower part of the neck with light brown lanceolate 

 spots, many of the feathers having also one or two 

 dark brown concealed spots. The axillar feathers are 

 white, marked with three spots, dark brown, reddish- 

 brown, and sienna. The lower greater wing-coverts 

 are white, with three broad dusky bands ; the next set 

 sienna with large dusky spots ; the small outer fea- 

 thers brown, and tipped with yellowish-white ; the 



