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smallness of the bill and toes, and the plumose covering of the 

 tarsi. M. Temminck has expressed a suspicion of its being 

 identical with his F. niveiis ; but Dr. H. states his conviction 

 that these species are distinct. According to Mr. Vigors 

 they both belong to that group of short-'winged Eagles which 

 is distinguished by a rather feeble and elongated bill, and 

 slender, lengthened tarsi, feathered to the toes; and which 

 also includes F. atricapillus of Cuvier. All these birds, as 

 stated by Mr. V., appear to be strongly allied, if not to apper- 

 tain, to the genus Morplinus Cuv. * It may perhaps admit 

 of discussion whether the piscatory habits of the presfent spe- 

 cies will not place it nearer the Fishing Eagles. 



The only remaining bird described in this work which is 

 decidedly of a raptorial character, is 



Strix badia. S. badia nigro punctata, subtus pallidior, gula 

 juguloque albidis, torque fusco. — Woivo-wiwi, or Kalong-'wiwi, 

 of the Javanese. 



Eight species of Strigidce have been discovered in Java by 

 Dr. Horsfield ; three belonging to the division of the genus 

 Strix, comprising the Eared-Oivls, and five to that consisting 

 of the Owls with smooth heads. Of the latter the S.javanica 

 of Gmelin, shown by Dr. H.'s specimens to be merely a variety 

 of the S.Jlamynea of Linnaeus, is the most generally distributed. 

 The present species is one of the rarest. It never visits the vil- 

 lages, but resides in the closest forests, which are the usual re- 

 sort of the Tiger. The natives even assert that the Wo'wo- 

 tsoiisoi approaches that animal with the same familiarity with 

 which the Jallak [Pastc/r Jalla H.) approaches the Buffalo, 

 and that it has no dread of alighting on the Tiger's back. 



The next bird we have to notice is a species of Podargus, 

 an extraordinary genus established by Cuvier, and shown by 

 Mr. Vigors to be the immediate passage from the Birds of 

 Prey to the Perchers; its bill combining the different forms of 

 that of the genera Strix and Capj-imulgus, and its legs, though 

 still retaining the characteristics of the latter, related to thoge 

 of the former by their superior robustness : — P. Javanensis, 

 P. rufescente-isabellinus fusco-pulverqlentus, cauda undulato- 

 fasciata. — Chaha-'wonno, of the Javanese. Its habits are re- 

 tired and nocturnal. 



Of the birds belonging to the remaining orders, though 

 many of them are highly interesting, we have room only to 

 give the characters ; arranging them, however, according to 

 the natural order developed by Mr. Vigors. 



* Zool. Journ. vol. i, p. 325. 



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