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bird. The dimensions of this specimen, taken from the skin, are 
as follow. Length, 21-5. Tail, 9°25. Wing, 15°88. Cere on cul- 
men, 0°56. Bill from edge of cere to point along curve, 1°13 ; 
from gape, 1°5; height at margin of cere, 0°53. Targus, 2°25. 
Mid toe, to root of claw, 1°88; its claw along curve, 1:06; inner 
toe, 1-0 ; its claw along curve, 1°34; hind toe, 0°88 ; its claw along 
curve, 1:47. 
Description. The head and neck are dingy brown with dark 
shafts and traces of dark central streaks, the rest of the upper 
surface is a dull brown, (except the longer upper tail coverts 
which are white) ; the upper back, longer scapulars and seconda- 
ries (which are narrowly tipped yellowish white) being darker 
than the rest; tertials and lesser and median coverts paler, and 
tail, (also narrowly tipped yellowish white) with all but the 
uropygials (and even on these a trace of the same is discernable) 
exhibiting obscure, irregular, clouded bars of a darker colour. 
Beneath, a more rufous brown, slightly paler on vent and lower 
tail coverts ; tibial plumes and the feathers of the throat, breast, 
abdomen and sides, darker shafted. Lower surface of tail, grey- 
ish white, with the brown bars showing through more or less, 
on all but the outer laterals. Traces of banding on the inner 
webs of all the primaries above the notch. 
I can see no trace of a rudimentary crest, no superciliary 
stripe, no band from the angle of the mouth, no dark central 
stripe to the chin. ‘ 
Mr. Layard, who gives this species from South Africa, says, 
“The only specimen I have seen is a young bird shot by Mr. 
Jackson at Nel’s Port. Itis entirely of a dark brown colour, 
in some places inclining to black. He tells me he was attracted 
to it by its peculiar cry.” 
The shrill note of this Hagle, which has, as noticed by Lord 
Lilford, a peculiar intensity of character, was what first drew my 
attention to the bird which I shot in the Goorgaon district and 
have above described. 
Mr. Blyth tells us, that this species occurs in the Indo-Chi- 
nese sub-region. Mr. Wallace does not include it in the ap- 
tores of the Malay Archipelago. 
Since the major portion of the above was written, my collec- 
tor, Mr. Theobald, found a nest of H. Pennatus on the 21st 
February, 1869, at Hurroor in the district of Salem and from 
it shot the old brown birds, above noticed. ‘The nest,’’ he 
says, “was on the branch of a high Banyan tree (Ficus Indica,) 
about forty or fifty feet from the ground. It consisted of dry 
twigs, and was in shape a circular platform, with a slight depres- 
sion in the centre, devoid of lining.” The eggs were two in 
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