APPENDIX. 



Owing to the kindness of Mr. J. Davidson, I am enabled to add 

 a list of the birds collected or observed by him in Khandesh 

 during the past four years. Many of these are rare and 

 some of them have not previously been recorded from the 

 Presidency ; of these latter I append descriptions. 



Aquila nipalensis, JSodgs. 



27bis. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 57 (young) ; Stray 

 Feathers, Vol. VII, p. 338. 

 Dimensions much as in A. mogilnik. 



This species has two very distinct stages of plumage : First, 

 the leading character of this first stage is to have two conspi- 

 cuous white, or fulvous- white, wing-bands ; the whole of the 

 head, neck, chin, throat, back, lesser-scapulars, lesser wing- 

 coverts, breast, abdomen, sides, leg-feathers, axillaries, wing-lining, 

 except the greater lower wing-coverts, are a nearly uniform 

 brown ; the upper tail-coverts are clear, slightly yellowish-white ; 

 the tail dark-brown, more or less conspicuously tipped with fulvous- 

 white, and with or without narrow, transverse, irregular grey- 

 bands ; the quills and greater wing-coverts are pure white, or 

 white mingled with brown, slightly darker than the rest of the 

 wing-lining. 



The specimens in this stage vary greatly in the prevailing 

 shade of brown ; some are very pale, almost whitey-brown, others 

 moderately pale hair-brown ; some are entirely destitute of bars 

 on the tail, others exhibit them conspicuously, and in the speci- 

 mens before me the very lightest bird, and one of the darkest 

 have no bars whatsoever on the tail ; the lower tail-coverts, in 

 almost all the specimens, are white, or slightly fulvous-white ^ 

 but in one specimen they are mottled with the same brown as the 

 rest of the lower parts. 



In some, the pale tippings to the tail feathers are obsolete, 

 in others conspicuous ; the lesser and median lower wing-coverts, 

 in one or two specimens, are narrowly tipped with white ; gene- 

 rally they are of the same uniform brown, as the breast, abdomen, 

 etc. In both these forms, the lower surface of the primaries 

 are but faintly mottled with greyish-white. 



Some specimens again are met with, changing to the next form ; 

 in these the wing-bands have nearly disappeared ; the tail feathers 

 show the irregular, narrow bars more strongly than in any of the 

 others ; the whole of the crown is darker, the pale tipping of 

 the tail is almost obsolete ; many of the median lower wing- 



