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Mr. iTume {R. N. p. 245) describes a nestling female nearly able to 

 fly as a nearly uniform dark brown above and ligliter below ; the legs 

 and feet a clear pale lemon yellow. 



Hah. — Siud, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudli and Bengal; Kutcli, 

 Rajputana, the Western Coast and the Concan ; also Beloochistan, 

 Persia and Afghanistan. Ascends the Ganges and other large rivers ; 

 found also in Nepaul and Cashmere. In the Concan and along the 

 Sind, Kutch and Kattiawar Coasts, it is known as the Mutchee Mar or 

 Matchlee Mung. 



The Ring-tailed Sea Eagle is found throughout the year in Sind, 

 along the Indus, and on the larger lakes. It breeds in the winter 

 months, (November, December and January), building a nest of twigs, 

 &c., from 4 to 5 feet in diameter, iuclasive of the outer thin layer, 

 usually on high trees in the vicinity of water. Eggs usually 2, but 

 I have found a third and a fourth laid by the same bird a fortnight after 

 taking the two first ones. In colour they are white or greyish white 

 and unspotted, and measure 2| — 3 inches X 2j to 2^. 



Halisetus albicillus, Linn. Sifst. Nat. i, p. 123; SJiarpe, Cat. Ace. 

 p. 302. H. albicilla, Leach. Si/.d. Gat. Mam. 4'c., B. M. p. 9,- Gould. 

 Birds Eur. p. 10; McGUllvnu/, Brit. B. iii. p. 221 ; ShnUeij, Birds 

 of Eg If pt, p. 204; Hume, S. Feathers, i. p. 159; id. R>nighNotes, p, 257; 

 iS^. Feathers, vii. 341, 467; Murray, Hdhk., ZooL, cjr., Sind, p. 111. 

 Falco albicilla. Gin. Sijst. Nat. i. p. 253. Aquila albicilla, Pall. Zoogr. 

 Uosso, As. i. p. 3 45. Halisetus pelagicus, Hume, Rough Notes, ii. 

 p. 252. Halifetus Brooksi, Hiune, This, 1870, p. 438. — The European 

 White-tailed Sea Eagle. 



Male. — The legs and feet bright orange yellow. Gape and portion 

 of cere yellow, upper portion being yellowish brown. Bill blackish 

 horny , head, nape, cheeks, ear-coverts and sides of the neck, hair 

 brown ; all the feathers white at their bases, in some for the basal half, 

 in others for fully the basal two-thirds, but very little of the white 

 showing through, the feathers being densely set; all the feathers of 

 these parts long and linear, those of the occiput especially ; the back 

 of the neck, the whole of the back and rump, scapulars and wing- 

 coverts, except the greater primary coverts, as well as the feathers of 

 the breast and abdomen a warm buffy fawn colour, changing to white 

 at their bases, and more or less broadly tipped with hair brown; the 

 longer scapnlars and the upper tail-coverts, which latter are very broad 

 and come down to within some four inches of the tip of the tail, a 

 mixtm-e of yellowish and hair brown, mottled and freckled with white 

 and yellowish white ; tail, which is very wedge-shaped, dai'k brown, 

 mottled all over with dingy yellowish white, which colour predominates 

 on the inner webs; the quills, winglet, and greater primarj'' coverts 

 chocolate brown ; the second to the 5th primaries conspicuously emar- 

 ginate on the outer web, and with a grey silvery tinge above the 

 emarginations ; the 1st to the 5th primaries conspicuously notched on 

 the inner webs ; the chin and throat pale buffy brown, the feathers 

 whitish at the base and darker at the tips; the flanks and thigh- 



