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In the new feathers, the white runs as a narrow band round 
the tip, and the transverse bars are obscurely visible on the 
outer, as well as the inner webs; all the tail feathers are white 
at the base; but this is hid, except in the lateral ones, by the 
upper tail coverts ; all are narrowly tipped with white ; all have 
a broad subterminal, and two other conspicuous, transverse, 
dark brown bars. The ground colour of the whole of the central 
feathers is pale brown, but in the lateral feathers, nearly the 
whole ground of the inner web is pure white, and in the exterior 
feather, more than the basal one-fourth is white on the outer web 
also. ‘The bars decrease slightly in width and strength, as the 
feathers recede from the centre. 
There is an inconspicuous blackish brown supercilium, and a 
good deal of faint blackish brown is mingled in the ear coverts. 
The whole breast, sides, abdomen, thigh coverts, lower tail and 
wing coverts pure white, each feather with a broad subterminal 
bar, (or in some of the wing coverts, spot,) of pale earthy brown. 
The axillaries are similar, but have two or even three of the 
brown transverse bars. 
Description of No. 7. 
Feet and legs almost a pearl grey, irides a gamboge yellow. 
The whole of the head, chin, throat, and neck all round is white, 
but all the feathers have the shafts, a sort of fulvous brown ; 
there is a little dusky and fulvous mingled with the ear coverts, 
and many of the feathers of the back of the neck, and most of 
those at the base of the same all round, are tinged at the tips 
with fawn colour or pale fulvous brown. The breast, abdomen, 
thigh coverts, sides, axillaries, lower wing, and tail coverts are 
pure white, not a few of the feathers, however, having inconspi- 
cuous, subterminal, transverse bands of a sort of fawn, or pale 
fulvous brown. ‘The rest of the bird is much as in the adult, 
but everywhere of a lighter shade; there are only two or at 
most three bars on the inner webs of the last five primaries and 
the secondaries, and these are much less conspicuous, and feebler 
than in the adult. On the tail, the white tipping and broad 
dark subterminal band are barely to be traced; while the other 
bars ure feebler than in the adult. 
No. 39. Spilornis Cheela, Daupry. 
Tuer Crestep SERPENT HAGE. 
This very handsome bird, which should perhaps more proper- 
ly stand as the Indian Harrier Hagle, breeds throughout the 
