38 AQUILINE. 



'the barring on the breast, so conspicuous in adult clieela, is almost 

 entirely wanting. 



The Southern Harrier Eagle is a permanent resident and is 

 not uncommon in the hilly tracts and jungles along the Western 

 Ghats, but has not been recorded from elsewhere within our 

 limits. 



GENUS, Pandion, Savigny. 



Bill short, curved from the cere, rounded above -tip produced and 

 much hooked; margin of upper mandible sinuated ; nostrils small, 

 narrow, obliquely transverse ; wings long, reaching beyond the 

 end of the tail, jiecond quill longest, or second and third nearly 

 equal ; tail moderate, nearly even ; the tarsus moderate, entirely 

 covered with reticulated scales ; toes quite free, outer-toe versatile, 

 longer than the inner-toe ; claws large, much curved, rounded 

 below, nearly of equal size ; soles of the feet covered with sharp 

 pointed scales. 



Pandion halisetus, Lin. 



40, Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol? I, p. 80; Butler, Gttzerat; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. V, p. 40 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. 

 IX, p, 373 ; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 81 ; 

 Hume's Scrap Book, p. 234. 



THE OSPREY. 



? . Length, 26 ; wing, 20 ; tail 9 ; tarsus, 2 '2 5 ; bill at gape 

 1-6 ; mid toe, 3*5. 



. Length, 23'5 ; wing 19 ; tail, 8'5. 



The bill black ; gape and base of lower mandible pale lavender 

 plumbeous ; cere dark lead-color ; irides bright yellow ; legs and 

 feet delicate sea-green ; claws black. 



Above, head and nape white, the feathers of the forehead and 

 crown with dark brown stripes ; upper plumage rich hair-brown ; 

 quills blackish ; tail pale brown, with dark bars, whitish on the 

 inner web ; a dark brown band from the eyes over the ears ; 

 beneath pure white, with some brown spots on the breast, longi- 

 tudinal in youth, broader in advancing age, and tending to coalesce 

 in the fully adult. 



The Osprey or Fish Hawk occurs throughout the region, but 

 is nowhere abundant ; it frequents the backwaters and lagoons 

 on the coast, also the larger tanks and lakes inland, and is found 

 occasionally along the courses of the larger rivers ; it is perhaps 

 more common along the sea coast. It probably breeds within the 

 district, but there is no record of its eggs having been taken. 



GENUS, Polioeetus, Kaup. 



^Bill somewhat lengthened, straight at the base, compressed, 

 with a prominent sharp festoon ; wings short ; tail rather short, 

 slightly rounded ; tarsus feathered in front for one-third of its 

 length, stout, covered in front with large transverse scales, 



