‘BS AQUILINA. 
the barring on the breast, so conspicuous in adult cheela, is almost 
entirely wanting. 
The Southern Harrier Eagle is a permanent resident and is 
not uncommon in the hilly tracts and jungles along the Western 
Ghats, but has not been recorded from elsewhere within our 
limits. 
Genus, Pandion, Savigny. 
Bill short, curved from the cere, rounded above ; tip produced and 
much hooked; margin of upper mandible sinuated ; nostrils small, 
narrow, obliquely transverse ; wings long, reaching beyond the 
end of the tail, second quill longest, or second and third nearly 
equal; tail moderate, nearly even; the tarsus moderate, entirely 
covered with reticulated scales ; toes quite free, outer-toe versatile, 
longer than the inner-toe; claws large, much curved, rounded 
below, nearly of equal size; soles of the feet covered with sharp 
pointed scales. 
Pandion haliztus, Lin. 
40.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p.80; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. V, p. 40; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 
IX, p. 373; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 81; 
Hume’s Scrap Book, p. 234. 
THE OSPREY. 
@. Length, 26; wing, 20; tail 9; tarsus, 2°25; bill at gape 
16; mid toe, 3°5. 
g. Length, 23°5 ; wing 19; tail, 8°5. 
The bill black; gape and base of lower mandible pale lavender 
plumbeous ; cere dark lead-color; irides bright yellow; legs and 
feet delicate sea-green ; claws black. 
Above, head and nape white, the feathers of the forehead and 
crown with dark brown stripes; upper plumage rich hair-brown ; 
quills blackish ; tail pale brown, with dark bars, whitish on the 
inner web; a dark brown band from the eyes over the ears ; 
beneath pure white, with some brown spots on the breast, longi- 
tudinal in youth, broader in advancing age, and tending to coalesce 
in the fully adult. 
The Osprey or Fish Hawk occurs throughout the region, but 
is nowhere abundant; it frequents the backwaters and lagoons 
on the coast, also the larger tanks and lakes inland, and is found 
occasionally along the courses of the larger rivers; it is perhaps 
more common along the sea coast. It probably breeds within the 
district, but there is no record of its eggs having been taken. 
Genus, Polioxtus, Kaup. 
Bill somewhat lengthened, straight at the base, compressed, 
with a prominent sharp festoon; wings short; tail rather short, 
slightly rounded; tarsus feathered in front for one-third of its 
length, stout, covered in front with large transverse scales, 
