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The crested Eagle is found throughout Central and Southern 

 India. I have got it in Malabar, on tlie Eastern Ghats, and in 

 central India, near Nagpore ; and it has been killed in the Midna- 

 pore jungles. According to Horsfield, it has been procured also 

 in the Himalayas, in Kumaon, and Bootan, but very probably 

 mistaken for the last, or perhaps the next species. It is generally 

 seen seated on the top of a high tree, where it watches for hares, par- 

 tridges, young pea-fowl, jungle-fowl, &c., on which it pounces. It 

 is said to breed on trees. It extends to Ceylon, where it has been 

 known to kill fowls and ducks. 



I think it is somewhat doubtful if Tickell's F. LatJiami should 

 be referred here, or to some other species ; perhaps from its small 

 size it may be the young bird of Spizaetus Kienierii. He describes 

 it as 18 inches long, head, hind neck, and wing coverts, clouded 

 ashy and rusty, back clouded with brown, beneath white, with a 

 streak of black down the centre of the throat, and with rusty 

 bars on the breast and belly. Can it have been Astur trivii'gatus i 



36. Limnaetus Nipalensis, Hodgson. 



Nisaetus Nipalensis, crested variety, HoDGSON, J. A. S., V., 

 229 ; VI., 361— Blyth, Cat. 104— Horsf., Cat. 616— N. Pulcher, 

 HoDGS., J. A. S., XII. 305, — F. orientalis, Tem. and Schl. ? — 

 Kanzha chil, Lepch. — Reijore, Bhot. 



The Spotted Hawk-Eagle. 



Descr. — Plumage of the upper parts deep brown, very dark on 

 the inter-scapulars, and verging on black on the crown and occipital 

 crest, which is slightly tipped white, and is four inches lono- ; 

 nuchal feathers edged tawny brown ; chin blackish, continued as a 

 median line to the breast, which is fulvous brown, and with dark 

 streaks ; or in some, the chin, throat and breast, fulvous, with large 

 blackish brown ovate spots, and a dark moustacheal band, and 

 two similar lateral streaks, at first very broad, proceed from the cor- 

 ners of the gape ; belly, flanks, lower tail coverts, and thigh coverts, 

 more or less distinctly banded with brown and white ; tarsal fea- 

 thers bunded whitish ; wings dark brown, bunded with blackish;. 



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