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with pale fawn ; tarsal feathers, and under tail coverts, unspotted ; 

 the Iming of the wing white, with brown spots. A further stage 

 is marked by the spots beneath becoming much larger ; the thigh 

 coverts and tarsal feathers also marked with pale brown transverse 

 bands ; and the bands on the tail fewer and narrower, except tlie 

 terminal one ; the chin, too, has a central dark brown line in some, 

 and the feather below the ears from the gape are streaked with 

 dark brown. 



In the nearly adult bird the dark markings below are still more 

 developed, and brownish black, and the upper surface also is 

 darker; and in some the whole plumage is uniform dusky black 

 with an ashy tin^e. Now and then one is met with, having a rudi- 

 niental crest, in some nearly three inches long. 



Length of male 25 inches; wing 16 ; tail 9^ to 10 ; tarsus 3|^ ; 

 mid-toe and claw 3. Irides bright yellow, brownish in the young ; 

 cere yellowish ; feet pale yellow. 



This small crestt^d Eagle is not rare about Calcutta and other 

 parts of Lower Bengal, extending to the Himalayas; but I have 

 never obtained it in the Sduth of India, nor is it to my knoAvledge 

 found in Central India or the Upper Provinces. It extends, how- 

 ever, into the Burmese and Malay countries, and to the Islands. 

 1 observed it rather common in the jungles at the mouth of the 

 Rano;oon river. Nothing remarkable is recorded of the habits of 

 this species. 



35. Limnaetus Cristatellus, Tem. 



Falco, apud Temminck, PL col. 282— Blyth, Cat. 105 (in 

 part) — HoRSF., Cat. 39, var. A. — Elliot, apud Jerdon, Cat. 

 12^ — F. Lathami, Tickell? — F. cirrhatus, Gmel? — Shuh Baz, 

 H. — Jutu bhyri, Tel. 



The Crested Hawk-Eagle. 



Descr. — Young, pale brown above, head and neck fulvous^ 

 long occipital crest black, with white tip ; feathers of the head and 

 neck white edged ; beneath white, with some small light fulvous 

 or brown spots on the breast and lower parts. There is less Avhite 

 on the wing coverts than in the young of the last, and the bars on 

 the tail are wider. 



