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Can this bird be the /. Lathami of Tickell, referred to by 
Jerdon? and is this by any chance S. Manus of Wallace, Ibis, 
1868, page 14? I wish some one would procure and send me 
specimens of this supposed dwarf Hawk Kagle. It has been re- 
peatedly mentioned tome by sportsmen, but I have never felt 
sure that the young of Hieraetus Pennatus was not really what 
they referred to, although when shown specimens of this, I have 
on two occasions been told, that their bird had shorter wings 
and a longer tail. 
It is noteworthy that Blyth remarks, that Cirriatus never 
attains the black plumage. Wallace, however, who gives as 
habitats of the species, Java, Penang, Sumatra, and Borneo, 
says, “‘ My specimen from Java is nearly black, and that from 
Penang very white underneath.” 
To judge, however, from his synonymes, he refers to the spe- 
cies which I have given as S. Caligatus, and it may happen, that 
the Cirrhatus of some authors, is no other than S. Caligatus, 
while of other and specially Indian authors, the Cirrhatus is 
only the young of Nipalensis. 
No. 36. Spizaetus Nipalensis, Honeson. 
Hopason’s Hawk HaGuez. 
This beautiful species breeds, as far as I yet know, only in the 
Himalayas, laying during March, April, and the early part of 
May. 
te nest, a large coarse stick structure,is placed upon some 
large tree, either hidden in a dense forest, or projecting from 
the face of some inaccessible cliff. 
It lays two eggs I think as a rule, but single eggs are often 
found much incubated. 
Although I have, in former years, seen several of its nests, 
the only specimen that I now possess of the eggs of this species 
I owe to Capt. Hutton. In shape it is a broad regular oval, al- 
most symmetrical at both ends. The shell is coarse, dull and 
glossless, the ground colour a slightly greenish white, spotted 
thinly with reddish brown, and with numerous large blotches 
and streaks of very pale inky purple. It measures 3:78 by 
2°23. 
My friend, Capt. Hutton, favours me with the following note : 
“This species is common at Mussoorie and occurs also during 
winter in the Doon; at Mussoorie it is a permanent resident, 
and most destructive to pigeons, fowls and game; its loud 
