HA LI A ETUSCIRCAETUS 527 



Hal. Corea. 



As yet but very little is known about this bird, and it has 

 only been obtained in Corea. Nothing is on record respecting 

 its habits or nidification. Dr. Puschkin described (Bull. B. O. 

 Club, xi. p. 4, 1900) under the name T/ialassaetus macrurus, 

 from Yakutsk, a Sea-Eagle closely allied to If. branickii, of which 

 I have not seen a specimen a'nd cannot therefore judge as to 

 whether it is a good species. 



CIRCAETUS, Vieill., 1816. 



743. SHORT-TOED EAGLE. 



CIRCAETUS GALLICUS. 



Circaetus gallicus (Gmel.), Syst. Nat. i. p. 295 (1788) ; Gould, B. of E. 

 i. pi. 13 ; Dresser, v. p. 563, pis. 349, 350 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. 

 Mus. i. p. 280 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Incl. Birds, iii. p. 355 ; C. brachy- 

 dactylm (Wolf), Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. i. p. 21 (1810) ; Naum. 

 i. p. 236, Taf. 15. 



Aigle Jean le blanc, French ; Guincho da tairiha, Portug. ; 

 Aguila par da, Aguila del huevo solo, Span. ; Biancone, Ital. ; 

 Natternadler, Schlangenadler, German ; A garb abiad, Arab. ; 

 Sampmar, Hindu. ; Sapmaril, Beng, 



<$ ad. (Italy). Upper parts dark earth-brown with a faint purplish 

 gloss, some of the feathers with darker centres ; quills dark brown on 

 outer web and tips, white on inner web, barred on the secondaries ; tail 

 brown, with darker bars and tipped with white ; lores, forehead, chin, and 

 sides of head covered with long black bristles ; under parts white, the 

 throat and breast striped, the flanks sparingly barred with brown ; under 

 tail-coverts white ; tarsi bare, covered with almost hexagonal scales, those 

 on the feet smaller and rounder ; beak blackish horn ; cere yellowish flesh- 

 colour ; legs dirty flesh-colour ; iris yellow. Culmen 2'05, wing 20'4, tail 

 11*4, tarsus 4'1 inch. Female similar but larger. The young bird has the 

 wing-coverts with paler margins, the throat more marked with brown, the 

 lower throat and breast almost uniform dark earth-brown, and the breast 

 broadly barred with brown. 



Hob. Southern Europe, rare in central Europe and only a 

 straggler further north ; Africa south to Kordofan and Senaar ; 

 Palestine and central Asia east to North China, and occurring 

 throughout India. 



In habits it has much in common with the Buzzards, and on 

 the wing it is very Buzzard-like, but is readily distinguishable by 



