APPENDIX. 
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Owing to the kindness of Mr. I Davidson, I am enabled to add 
a list of the birds collected or observed by him in Khandesh 
during the past four years. Many of these are rare and 
some of them have not previously been recorded from the 
Presidency ; of these latter I append descriptions. 
Aquila nipalensis, Hogs. 
27bis—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 57 (young); Stray 
Feathers, Vol. VII, p. 338, 
Dimensions much as in A. mogilnik. 
This species has two very distinct stages of plumage: First, 
the leading character of this first stage is to have two conspi- 
cuous white, or fulvous-white, wing-bands ; the ‘whole of the 
head, neck, chin, throat, back, lesser-scapulars, lesser wing- 
coverts, breast, abdomen, sides, leg-feathers, axillaries, wing-lining, 
except the greater lower wing-coverts, are a nearly uniform 
brown ; the upper tail-coverts are clear, slightly yellowish-white ; 
the tail dark-brown, more or less conspicuously tipped with fulvous- 
white, and with or without narrow, transverse, irregular grey- 
bands ; the quills and greater wing-coverts are pure white, or 
white ‘mingled with brown, slightly darker than the rest of the 
wing-lining. 
The specimens in this stage vary greatly in the prevailing 
shade of brown ; some are very pale, almost whitey-brown, others 
moderately pale hair-brown ; some are entirely destitute of bars 
on the tail, others exhibit them conspicuously, and in the speci- 
mens before me the very lightest bird, and one of the darkest 
have no bars whatsoever on the tail; the lower tail-coverts, in 
almost all the specimens, are white, or slightly fulvous-white ; 
but in one specimen they are mottled with the same brown as the’ 
rest of the lower parts. 
In some, the pale tippings to the tail feathers are obsolete, 
in others conspicuous ; the lesser and median lower. wing-coverts, 
in one or two specimens, are narrowly tippéd with white ; gene- 
rally they are of the same uniform brown, as the breast, abdomen, 
etc. In both these forms, the lower surface of the Pema 
are but faintly mottled with greyish-white. 
Some specimens again are met with, changing to the next fetta 
in these the wing-bands have nearly disappeared ; the tail feathers 
show the irregular, narrow bars more strongly than in any of the 
others ; the whole of the crown is darker, the pale tipping of 
the tail is almost obsolete ; many of the median lower wing- 
