82 FALCONIDiE. 



Halisetus, Savigmj. — Bill straight at the bnsc, longisli;, compressed, 

 curved towards the tip, which is much hooked ; maro-iu of upper 

 mandible sinuate; wings long; 4th aud'Sth quills sub-equal, longest; 

 tarsus plumed for nearly half its length; lower half of tarsus scutellate. 



Halisetus leucoryphus, PalJas. Iieis. Bitss. Eeichs. i. p. 454; 

 Kei/s. and Bias. Wirh. Eur. p. xxx. ; Strick. Orn. Syn. p. 52 ; Hume, 

 Rough NoteSi ii. p. 242; Stray Feathers, i. pp. 102-159; Huwe and 

 Hf^nderson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 173; Blanford, Eastern Persia, 

 p. 112; Sharpey Cat. Ace. B. M. p. 309; Miirray, Hdhk., Zool, cj-c, 

 Sind, p. 111. H. fulviventer, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 82, No. 42. Ichthyre^tus 

 Icucoryphus, Blijth. Ann. and ili. N. H. xv. p. 37. Cuncuma macei, 

 Gray, Cat. Ace. p. 23. — The Eing-tailed Sea Eagle. 



Adult Male. — Above dark brown, with a slight purplish gloss; some 

 of the greater coverts slightly margined with paler brown ; cjuills 

 blackish; the secondaries rather browner like the scapulars ; the lower 

 surface of the quills brown, inclining to bluish ash colour on the inner web 

 of the primaries ; some of the secondaries mottled with white near the 

 base of the inner web ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts purplish 

 brown, some of the outermost of the latter whitish at base; tail white, 

 blackish at base, with a broad black terminal band. Head, hind neck 

 and interscapnlary region sandy-brown ; the feathers of the head and 

 hind neck streaked with fulvous. Sides of face and throat buffy white, 

 the latter with narrow whitish streaks down the centre of the feathers ; 

 rest of under surface of body dull fulvous brown, lighter on the 

 chest, where the feathers are paler centred, and deeper browm on the 

 flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts. Under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 blackish bi^own, slightly mottled with white. Cere pale bluish green. 

 Nostrils, gape, and base of lower mandible bluish. Upper mandible 

 greenish horn colour, dusky at tip ; feet greyish white ; iris pale 

 brownish yellow. 



Length. — 30 inches, culmen 2*6, wing 22"2, tail 12 '2, tarsus 3*6. 



Adult Female. — Length, 33 inches, wing 24"4, tail 11*7, tarsus 4"3. 



Young. — Above dark brown, the feathers of the back deeper towards 

 their bases; the wing-coverts lighter than the back, and the upper tail- 

 coverts plainly margined with whity-brown ; greater coverts dark 

 brown with whity-brown tips ; quills blackish, externally shaded with 

 ashy ; the innermost secondaries dark brown like the back ; lower sur- 

 face of quills ashy brown, some of the innermost primaries inclining 

 ,to whitish on inner web ; tail dark brown, shaded with ashy above 

 and below; head, neck, and under parts fulvous brown, deeper on the 

 head and varied with white bases to the abdominal plumes and under 

 tail-coverts ; the head and neck rather darker than the under parts and 

 streaked with sandy brown ; the chest and breast feathers with broad 

 whity-brown margins and tips ; under wing-coverts dull brown, 

 margined with paler brown ; the median series streaked with whity- 

 brown, the greater ones ashy white at the base and mottled along the 

 shaft towards the tip, which is also white ; feet clear lemou yellow, 

 {Sharjje). 



