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posteriorly with some large, somewhat irregular scales, exter- 
nally and internally with very small scales ; feet large, toes nearly 
covered above with large scute; lateral toes nearly equal ; 
middle and outer-claws about equal, less than the hind-claw ; 
claws rounded. 
Poliozetus ichthyetus, Horsf. 
41,—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 81; Hume’s Scrap Book, 
p. 239. 
THE WHITE-TAILED SEA EAGLE. 
Length, 27 to 29; wing 19; tail, 85; tarsus, 3°5; weight, 4 Ibs. 
Bill and cere blackish; irides brown. 
Adult with the head, lores, ears, chin, and throat light grey, 
the rest of the plumage light -wood-brown, darkest above, lighter 
beneath, and deepening on the scapulars and wings; lower ab- 
domen, vent, thigh-coverts, and tail white, the latter with a broad 
terminal dark brown band. 
The young bird is lighter brown above, all the feathers edged 
and tipped with whitish; beneath pale reddish-brown with pale 
mesial streaks, and albescent on the under tail-coverts ; tail 
mottled and clouded with light cinereous and brown. 
Dr. Jerdonsays: “This Fish-Eagle is found over a considerable 
part of India, but is rare towards the south. Mr. Elliot met 
with in it Dharwar. I never observed it myself south of the 
Nerbudda.” And again: “I found its nest on several occasions ; 
once near the Nerbudda, in a large tree.” 
Genus, Haliaetus, Savigny. 
Bill straight at base, longish, compressed, curved towards the 
tip, which is much hooked ; upper mandible with the margin strong- 
ly sinuate; nostrils somewhat oblong, transverse ; wings long, 
fourth and fifth quills sub-equal and longest; tail moderate or 
rather short; tarsus moderate, strong, plumed for nearly half 
its length, the lower half with large transverse scute in front 
and a short and more irregular series behind; or with a few and 
irregular ones in front above, and the whole of the rest reticu- 
lated with small scales, hexagonal, or irregular ; toes large, covered 
with scutz; outer-toe scarcely mobile; claws large, unequal, 
squared beneath, well curved. 
Haliaétus leucoryphus, Pall. 
42.—Haliaétus fulviventer, Vieill—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol. I, p. 82; H. Macei, Cuv.; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, 
Vol. III, p. 447; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 82 ; 
Hume’s Scrap Book, p. 242. 
THE RING-TAILED SEA EAGLE. 
G. Length, 29 to 31; expanse, 75 to 79 ; wing, 21 to 22; tail, 
11 to 12; tarsus, 3°75 to 4; bill from gape, 2:25 to 2°43. 
