AQUILIN. 35 
Deccan, where it is not uncommon ; it is more plentiful at Ratna- 
girl, It is a permanent resident, but nothing certain is known in 
regard to its nidification. It has been observed at and near 
Aboo, but has not yet been recorded from Sind. ; 
Limnaetus kienerii, Ge7v. 
37.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 74; Hume’s Scrap 
Book, p. 216. 
THE RUFOUS-BELLIED HAWK EAGLE. 
Length, 22 to 29; expanse, 50; wing, 15 to 175; tail, 10 to 
12:5; bill from gape, 1°5 ; tarsus, 3. 
Bill leaden-blue; cere yellow; irides brown; feet yellow; 
claws black. 
“The whole of the top and sides of the head, including the 
lores, cheeks, and ear-coverts, the back and sides of the neck, 
the back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts, and lesser and 
median wing-coverts, a nearly uniform -blackish brown; the 
feathers all with more or less of metallic reflections, some green- 
ish, some purplish; in some lights the whole of these parts 
appear to be almost, if not quite, black. The tail-feathers are 
a dark chocolate brown; the central ones, with two or three 
faint irregular paler patches, traces of where bars may have been ; 
the lateral ones, with broad, but faint and irregular, paler and 
mottled transverse bars. The under surface of the tail-feathers, 
a sort of silver-grey; the shafts white, a broad ill-defined dusky 
terminal patch, and in all, but the exterior feathers, four or five 
somewhat narrow transverse dusky bars above this; the quills 
are of two colors, the one set which appear to be older, dingy 
hair-brown ; the others, almost blackish-brown, with faint green 
or purple reflections, The inner webs in all are paler, except 
quite at the tips; and above these, there are dim transverse 
darker bars. The first five quills are conspicuously notched on 
the imner web, and the second to the fifth are emarginate on the 
outer web. The chin, throat, and breast are white; the feathers 
tinged towards the tips with pale rufous, and most of them with 
narrow, blackish-brown lanceolate shaft stripes. The whole of 
the wing-lining, (except the lower greater primary-coverts), 
axillaries, sides, flanks, abdomen, tarsal and tibial plumes, vent 
and lower tail-coverts, bright ferruginous; most of the feathers 
dark shafted, and many of those of the wing-lining, abdomen 
and sides with a conspicuous narrow, black, shaft stripe, and a 
few of the feathers just above the base of the tibia, very broadly 
tipped with blackish-brown, forming a very conspicuous patch.” 
—Hume’s Stray Feathers, Vol. I, p. 311. 
_ Jerdon remarks in his Birds of India, that “this beautiful 
Hawk Eagle has been found in Central India, and in the Hima- 
layas, but appears very rare. No other observer appears to have 
met with it within the district. 
