34 FALCONID^E. 



primaries blackish, externally shaded with ashy grey, forming distinct bands 

 on both webs, these bands more vermiculated on the lower surface, the inner 

 webs of the quills being ashy brown, shading into deep brown towards the 

 tips of the primaries ; tail dark brown, tipped with fulvous, the feathers shaded 

 with ashy grey, forming 89 distinct bars on centre feathers ; head and neck 

 rather paler than the back, the feathers of the latter part margined with fulvous, 

 giving a very mealy appearance; sides of face also light fulvous; under 

 surface of body pale fulvous brown, lighter on the throat, thighs, and under 

 tail coverts ; under wing coverts with many of the feathers whitey brown on 

 their margins, and near the base, the lower series ashy brown like the inner 

 lining of the wing. Cere and gape deep yellow ; feet yellow. Iris hazel 

 brown. (Sharpe, Cat. Ace.) 



Length. 27 28 inches; expanse 67 69 inches; wing 1975 21-75 ; 4th 

 and 5th primaries longest; tail 1 1-25 11-5 ; tarsus 3-8. 



Adult Male.--*2% inches; wing 20-5 ; tail 1 1 ; tarsus 3-4. (Sharpe, Cat. Ace.) 



ffa&.Smd, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Bengal, Rajpootana, Kattiawar, the 

 Deccan, Concan, Behar, the Carnatic, Central and Southern India, Nepal 

 and Darjeeling. 



A permanent resident in Sind and most parts of India. In Sind it breeds 

 in January, making a large nest of sticks lined wtth straw, leaves, &c., on high 

 trees, laying normally 2 broad oval, or spherical eggs ; the ground colour is 

 greyish white, either unspotted or with blotches and patches of yellowish brown. 

 In, upper India it breeds from the middle of November to the middle of June, 

 but the majority, according to Hume, lay in January. In size the eggs vary 

 from 2-35 to 3-25 inches X r8 to 2-25. 



30. Aquila hastata, Less. Voy. Belang. p. 217 ; B-lyth. J. A. S. B. 

 xv. p. 7 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 62 No. ; Hume, Rough Notes, \. p. 180 ; Anderson, 

 P. Z. S. 1871, p. 622. Aquila naevia, Brooks, Sir. F. i. p. 293. The 

 LONG-LEGGED EAGLE. 



Adult. Glossy hair brown above, most of the feathers tipped with white. 

 Quills glossy purplish black ; tail the same, but obsoletely barred with dusky 

 grey and tipped white ; upper tail coverts barred with white. Breast, abdomen, 

 feathers of the leg, lower wing coverts, and under tail coverts yellowish white, 

 closely barred with brown. Quills and tail beneath grey, mottled and barred 

 with dusky. In some only the feathers of the hind head and neck are tipped 

 with white, the tertials are broadly tipped with white and there are three 

 distinct rows of spots on the wings ; lesser wing coverts with small white spots; 

 nostrils rounded. 



The young and adolescents are much lighter in colour, the lower parts from 

 the breast are streaked longitudinally with fulvous white and the secondaries 

 and tertials barred and clouded with whitish and brown. 



