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and throat huffy white, the latter with narrow whitish streaks down the centre 

 of the feathers ; rest of under surface of body dull fulvous brown, lighter 

 on the chest, where the feathers are paler centered and deeper brown also on 

 the Hanks, thighs and under tail coverts. Under wing coverts and axillaries 

 blackish brown, slightly mottled with white. r Cere pale bluish green. Nos- 

 trils, gape, and base of lower mandibb bluish. Upper mandible greenish 

 horn colour, dusky at tip ; feet greyish white ; iris pale brownish 

 yellow. 



Length. 30 inches; culmen 2'6 ; wing 22'2; tail 12*2 ; tarsus 3'6. 

 Adult Female. Length, 33 inches ; wing 24*4 ; tail 117; tarsus 4-3. 



young. Above dark brown, the feathers of the back deeper brown towards 

 their bases ; the wing coverts lighter than the back, and the upper tail- coverts 

 plainly margined with whitey-brown ; greater coverts dark brown with whitey- 

 brown tips ; quills blackish, externally shaded with ashy ; the innermost 

 secondaries dark brown like the back ; lower surface of quills ashy brown, 

 some of the innermost primaries inclining to whitish on inner web ; tail dark 

 brown, shaded with ashy above and below ; head, neck, and under parts ful- 

 vous brown, deeper on the head and varied with white bases to the abdominal 

 plumes and under tail coverts ; the head and neck rather darker than the 

 under parts and streaked with sandy brown ; the chest and breast feathers 

 with broad whitey-brown margins and tips ; under wing coverts dull brown, 

 margined with paler brown ; the median series streaked with whitey-brown, 

 the greater ones ashy white at the base and mottled along the shaft towards 

 the tip, which is also white ; feet clear lemon yellow. (Sharpe.) 



Mr. Hume (R. N. p. 245) describes a nestling female nearly able to fly as a 

 nearly uniform dark brown above and lighter below ; the legs and feet a clear 

 pale lemon yellow. 



Hob. Sind, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Oudh and Bengal ; Kutch, Rajpu- 

 tana, the Western Coast and the Cancan; also Beloochistan, Persia and 

 Afghanistan. Ascends the Ganges and other large rivers ; found also in 

 Nepal and Cashmere. In the Concan and along the Sind, Kutch and 

 Kattiawar Coasts, it is known as the Mutchee Mar or Mutchlce Mimg. 



The Ring-tailed Sea Eagle is found throughout the year in Sind, along the 

 Indus., and on the larger lakes. It breeds in the winter months (November, 

 December and January), building a nest of twigs, &c., from 4 to 5 feet in 

 diameter, inclusive of the outer thin layer, usually on high trees in'the vicinity 

 of water. Eggs usually 2, but I have found a third and fourth laid by the 

 same bird a tortni-ht after taking the two first ones. In colour they are white 

 or greyish white and unspotted, and measure 2j 3 inches x 2-\ to 2. 



