62 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



The Wokhah builds on high trees, making a large nest of sticks, 

 and laying two eggs, white, with a few reddish brown spots, from 

 January to March. 



30 . Aquila hastata, Less. 



Morphnus, apud Lesson — Blyth, Cat. 113 — Spizaetus, apud 

 HoESF., Cat. 40 — Spiz. punctatus, Jerdon, Suppl. Cat. 20, bis — 

 Limnaetus unicolor, Blyth, J. A. S, XII. 128 — Jiyadha and 

 Gvtimar, H. in Bengal, the last word meaning Cocoon-destroyer. 

 — Phari Tisa, H., of some Falconers. 



The Long-Legged Eagle. 



Descr. — Adult, plumage above glossy hair brown, most of the 

 feathers tipped with white ; upper tail coverts barred with white ; 

 quills glossy purplish black ; tail the same, obsoletely barred with 

 dusky grey, and with a white tip ; throat and breast unspotted 

 brown ; breast, abdomen, feathers of the leg, lower wing cov- 

 erts, and under tail coverts, pale fawn or yelloAvish white, closely 

 barred with brown ; quills, and tail beneath, grey, mottled 

 and barred with dusky. In some only the feathers of the hind 

 head and back of the neck are tipped white, three distinct rows of 

 spots on the wings, and the tertiaries broadly tipped with white ; 

 in others the spots are still less developed. 



Young birds are much lighter brown ; the tertiaries and secondaries 

 barred and clouded with whitish and brown ; the tail more dis- 

 tinctly barred, and the lower parts, from the breast, streaked 

 longitudinally with fulvous white. 



The cervical feathers are lanceolate, and the neck hackles are 

 small. The bill is comparatively small ; the tarsi somewhat long 

 and slender; the wings reach to or surpass the end of the tail; 

 cere and feet yellow ; irides brown. 



Length of a female 26^ inches ; wing 19 ; tail 9i; tarsus 4 ; mid- 

 dle toe and claw, 3. A male measured 25 inches ; wing I8;j ; tail 

 9 ; bill at gape 2^; height not ^. 



This small but handsome Eagle is comparatively rare. I only 

 met with it in the South of India once or twice. It appears to be 

 more common in Bengal, where it plunders birds' nests, and also 



