54 FALCONID/E. 



The adult female is larger. The young is described by Mr. Sharpe (Cat. 

 Ace.) Head and neck dark brown, streaked with buffy white ; throat sandy 

 buff, the feathers paler centred ; rest of under surface rufescent brown with 

 distinct buffy shaft streaks widening towards the apex ; under tail coverts for 

 the most part white, irregularly mottled with reddish brown. Above brown, the 

 feathers margined paler, and with dull whitish shaft stripes ; lower back and 

 rump rather darker than the rest of the back, and with distinct white streaks ; 

 quills deep brown ; secondaries paler and tipped with buffy white ; the quills 

 with more or less distinct darker brown bars ; tip of inner web whitish below for 

 the greater part of its length ; tail dark brown, tipped with whitish and crossed 

 with three ill-defined bars of paler brown, much mottled with darker brown 

 and shaded with whitish. 



Hob. The whole of India, including British Burmah and the Tennaserim 

 province, also Assam and the Malay Archipelago, the Andamansand Nicobars. 

 Occurs in the Concan, Deccan, Central, Northern and Southern India, Punjab, 

 N.-W. P. and Bengal. A permanent resident in most parts, breeding on lofty 

 trees. 



Mr. Vidal has taken the eggs, in October, November and December, in the 

 Southern Concan. The nests are gigantic platforms, built of strong, thick 

 sticks, and are fully 5 feet in diameter. The normal number of eggs is one, 

 and sometimes two have been found ; they are greenish white, unspotted and 

 glossless, from 27 X 2-04 to 3- X 2 '06 inches. Mr. Vidal's experience is that 

 the same nests are used year after year, after being repaired, and that they 

 build on large trees in cocoanut and other gardens. As its English name 

 implies, it feeds chiefly upon fish. 



49. Haliaetus leucoryphus, Pallas, Reis. Russ. Racks, i.p. 454; 



Keys, and Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. xxx. ; Strick. Orn. Syn. p. 52; Hume, Rough 

 Notes, ii. p. 242; Stray Feathers, i. pp. 102-159 ; Hume and Henderson, Lahore 

 to Yarkand, p. 173 ; Blanford, Eastern Persia, p. 112; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. B .M. 

 p. 309; Murray, Hdblc. Zool. fyc. Sind; id. Vert. Zoo I. Sind, p. in. H. 

 fulviventer, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 82, No. 42. Ichthysetus leucoryphus, Blyth, 

 Ann. and M. N. H. xv. p. 37. Cuncuma macei, Gray, Cat. Ace. p. 23. 

 The RING-TAILED SEA EAGLE. 



Adult Male. Above dark brown, with a slight purplish gloss ; some of the 

 greater coverts slightly margined with paler brown ; quills blackish ; the 

 secondaries rather browner like the scapulars ; the lower surface of the quills 

 brown, inclining to bluish ash colour on the inner web of the primaries ; some 

 of the secondaries mottled with white near the base of the inner web ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail coverts purplish brown, some of the outermost of 

 the latter whitish at base ; tail white, blackish at base, with a broad black 

 terminal band. Head, hind neck and interscapulary region sandy-brown, 

 the feathers of the head and hind neck streaked with fulvous. Sides of face 



