Birds of Lucknow. 71 



No. 1207. Hieraetus fasciatus. Bonelli's Eagle. 



Churwa (?) [II., teste Reid]. 



The Museum contains several good skins of this fine 

 Eagle, so that it cannot be rare here. Nevertheless, I know 

 nothing of it from personal observation. Mr. Pyne, Opium 

 Department, very kindly sent me a splendid specimen from 

 Rae Bareli, where it had been doing much damage in the 

 pigeon-lofts and poultry-yards and was described as " a 

 perfect Cronje amongst the Hawks/' 



No. 1208. *Hieraetus pennattjs. Booted Eagle. 



I have nothing to add beyond what I have already written 

 and here reproduce : — 



" This bird is not included by Reid in his list of the birds 

 of the Lucknow Civil Division, although it is true that he 

 remarks that it is ' almost certain to be found/ In the latest 

 catalogue (1890) of the Lucknow Provincial Museum there 

 are three specimens entered as obtained in Lucknow, viz. : 

 ad. sex?, ad. £, juv. $ . I have come across this handsome 

 little Eagle on two or three occasions in the large park of 

 La Martiniere College. The first example was a female, 

 which I shot. I was attracted to it by the cries of a party 

 of Argya malcolmi, which were flying all round, evidently 

 in a perfect fever of excitement. This was on Dec. 17, 1897. 

 Several times after this I saw another bird, which 1 con- 

 cluded was the mate of the former. My second specimen 

 v as also obtained in the Martiniere Park, while sitting in a 

 sheshum-tree, in the middle of March 1899. On examining 

 the label 1 find that I did not determine the sex, but, judging 

 from its small size, I fancy that it was a male. The feet, legs, 

 and cere in this example were lemon-yellow ; in the female I 

 noted the bill as yellowish grey at the base and bluish black 

 at the tip. Since that time I have on two or three occasions 

 come across birds which I believe to have been individuals of 

 this Eagle, but was unable to secure them." 



No. 1210. Cikcaetus GALLieus. Short-toed Eagle. 



Jallar (?) [II., teste Reid]. 



The Short-toed Eagle is a permanent resident and fairly 



