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following week I obtained two, which, in the excitement of 

 their chase after the pigeons, flew into the barrack- rooms and 

 were caught. One of these I kept for some weeks ; and it 

 became fairly tame, taking raw meat and small birds from my 

 hand. It was a young male, its irides being pale yellowish 

 brown, and the dark brown feathers of the upper parts 

 blotched with white and edged with rusty brown. Length 

 10^ inches, tarsus barely 2 inches, legs greenish yellow, 

 beneath white with a slight rufous tinge, and having long, 

 oval, brown drops on the breast, and bands on the abdomen 

 and flanks ; tail ashy grey with brown bars. 



In November 1879, while collecting on Pulo Battam, one 

 of the thickly wooded islands near Singapore, I saw a pair 

 of these Hawks, and shot one of them while in hot pursuit 

 of a small bird. It was a male; length about II5 inches, 

 tarsus 2 inches, legs yellowish green, tail ashy grey crossed 

 with dusky bars. The plumage of the upper parts were of 

 a much darker brown than in the above-described specimen ; 

 still the feathers were all edged with rufous-brown, and the 

 underparts white, which, according to Dr. Jerdou, is cha- 

 racteristic of the immature bird ; he also states the mature 

 male to have the breast and flanks almost ferruginous. 



LiMNAETUS CALIGATUS (Rafflcs) . 



This Hawk-Eagle breeds in Perak. Near Kwala Kangsar, 

 during May 1877, I obtained a nestling, so young that it was 

 a mere ball of fluffy down. It throve wonderfully, its ap- 

 petite being simply insatiable, and rapidly grew into a 

 very handsome bird, so tame that I could handle it with 

 impunity. 



Its usual perch was on a rung of the ladder leading up 

 into one of the huts occupied by the men of my company, 

 with whom it was a great favourite ; and when the troops were 

 withdrawn from Perak it accompanied us, along -with wild 

 cats, monkeys, lorikeets, and pets of all kinds, to Singapore, 

 where I placed it in the aviary of the Botanical Gardens. 



In December 1880, when I left the Straits, the bird, then 

 nearly three years old, was in a very flourishing state, but had 



