142 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ORNITHOLOGY OF INDIA. 



several occasions, saw a small-bluish looking hawk with more 

 or less barred lower parts, sitting on a dry stump in the clear- 

 ing behind the Settlement at Camorta ; but it was so shy that 

 I could never get within shot of it." During our whole trip 

 we never even saw a single hawk of any kind. 



34 bis,— Spizaetus andamanensis, Tytler. (1.) 



Vide Stray Feathers, 1873, p. 52, and also my Scrap Booh, 

 p. 203. I may note to begin with that both Captain Beavan's 

 specimens, of which he gave the measurements, as male and 

 female, in the Ibis for 1867, and which Mr. Ball reproduced 

 loc. cit., must have been males ; also that the length and expanse, 

 given by Colonel Tytler at p. 204 of my Scrap Book, were 

 taken from dry skins. 



The following are the exact dimensions, taken in the flesh, 

 of an adult female : — Length, 23*5 ; expanse, 47 ; wing, 14'2 ; 

 tail, from vent, 10*25; tarsus, 3'6 ; bill, from gape, 2; closed 

 wings fall short of end of tail by 4'5 ; weight, 2-*75 lbs. 

 The fifth primary is the longest ; the first, 4in. ; the second, 

 1*4; the third, 0*4; and the fourth, 0'2 shorter. The external 

 tail feathers 0'75 shorter than the internal ones. 



The legs and feet were pale greenish white, slightly tinged 

 with yellow ; the claws black ; the bill black ; the cere brown- 

 ish ; the irides deep yellow. 



The lores and the anti-ocular region are somewhat thinly 

 clad, with excessively fine dusky hairlike feathers, underlaid, 

 more or less, by small whitish, or yellowish-white, down-like 

 feathers. The whole of the forehead, top, back of the head, 

 and nape, is mingled white, pale yellowish-brown, and blackish- 

 brown; the basal portion of the feathers being white, the termi- 

 nal portions yellowish-brown or fawn color, with conspicuous 

 lanceolate, deep brown spots towai'ds the tips ; all the feathers 

 of the occiput are somewhat elongated, so as to form a broad, 

 but inconspicuous subcrest; the mantle is mingled dark 

 hair brown, and paler sepia brown ; the extreme bases of the 

 feathers when lifted are white. The primaries and their greater 

 coverts are dark-brown ; the second to the seventh, inclusive, 

 conspicuously emarginate on the outer web, which emargi- 

 nation is concealed in the second and third by the coverts ; 

 just above this emargination is a broad fulvous brown 

 band, and above this again the feathers are paler ; the later 

 primaries and secondaries are paler, and are obscurely banded 

 with darker brown ; the rump and upper tail coverts are 

 mingled pale brown, and pale fulvous brown ; the darker color 



