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1 shot these birds, the one in February 1866, and the other 
in February 1867, in the neighbourhood of one of the huge 
jheels which, situated between Mynpooree and Etawah, are a 
favourite resort of all descriptions of waterfowl and waders, as 
well as of birds of prey. 
They are both young birds; in both, the plumage is mottled 
and obviously in a transition stage, and in the absence of speci- 
bases; in some, for the basal half, in some for fully the basal two-thirds, 
but very little of the white shewing through, the feathers being densely set ; 
all the feathers of these parts long, and linear, those of the occiput especi: illy. 
The back of the neck, the ae of the back end rump, scapulars, and wing 
coverts, except the greater primary coverts, as well as the feathers of the 
breast, and abdomen, a warm buffy fawn color, changing to white at their 
bases, and more or less broadly tipped with hair brown. The longer scapulars 
and the upper tail coverts, which latter are very broad, and come down to 
within some 43 inches of the tip of the tail, a mixture of yellowish and. hair 
brown, mottled and freckled with white, and yellowish white. Tail, which is 
very wedge-s shaped, reminding one of that of the Lammergeyer, dark brown, 
moitled all over with dingy yellowish white, which color predominates on 
the inner webs. The quills, winglet, and greater primary coverts, chocolate 
brown, The second to the fifth primaries, conspicuously emarginate on the 
outer web, and with a grey silvery tinge above the emarginations. The first 
to the fifth primaries, conspicuously uotched on the inner webs. The chin 
and throat, pale buffy brown, the feathers whitish at the base and darker at 
the tips. The flanks, and thigh coverts, pale yellowish brown, the feathers 
tipped dar ker, the lower tail coverts, dingy white, broadly tipped with 
brown, which in the longer ones is a darks hair brown! 4 in the shorter a dull 
yellowish brown. Wing lining a sort of umber brown, the bases of all 
the feathers paler, some of them fawn- colored, and some of them white. 
Female. The legs, feet, cere and gape, a sort of brownish yellow. The 
upper mandible, and claws, blackish horny. The tip of the lower mandible, 
yellowish horny. The whole of the head, nape, sides of the neck, cheeks, 
chin, and throat, pale yellowish brown, the feathers white, tipped with 
yellowish brown, which, owing to the feathers being closely set, is the predo- 
minent color, especially on the top of the head. The ear coverts a darker 
brown, the whole of the back of the neck, back, rump, and upper tail coverts, 
breast, sides, abdomen, vent, and lower tail coverts, white, comparatively 
narrowly tipped with yellowish brown, and many of the feathers, with a 
narrow linear ovate, hair brown, shaft spot, near the tip. As in the male 
the upper tail coverts are ovate lanceolate, very broad, and long, and reach to 
within less than six inches of the end of the long wedge-shaped tail, Most 
of the scapulars, and the tail feathers, ave a mixture of dull dark, and pale 
dingy yellowish brown, every where mottled and freckled with dirty white, 
which occupies almost the whole of the inner webs of the lateral tail feathers. 
The wing coverts, except the greater primary coverts, are wood brown, 
shewing “little or nothing of the white bases; most of the tertiaries are 
mottled white, and dingy yellowish brown, like the tail. The secondaries 
are a dull, slightly rufous brown, much mottled on the interior webs with 
white, and the primaries are dark chocolate brown, greyish above the emar- 
ginations. Some of the primary greater coverts, are dark chocolate brown, 
and others are a pale rufous brown. 
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