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tip. The next two have four such bars and traces of a fifth, 

 the fourth has five and traces of a sixth, but the basal one of 

 the five has become freckled and irregular. The rest of the 

 primaries have three more or less irregular white bars. In all the 

 primaries there are pale brownish patches on the outer webs, 

 corresponding more or less perfectly with the bars on the inner 

 webs. 



In younger birds the spotting extends on to the breast, there 

 is a great deal more spotting on the wing coverts and on the 

 upper tail coverts and rump, while almost every scapular and 

 tertiary has one or two white spots or specks at the tip. In still 

 younger birds the general tone of plumage is a paler, duller, 

 more rusty, and less chocolate brown, especially on the under- 

 surface. The barring on the under-surface of the quills also 

 varies greatly. In one fine female before me there are only 

 two bars on the first, and three on the following primaries, and 

 no traces of any others, but in this bird the spots extend right 

 up to the base of the throat. 



The quite young bird, to judge from one killed on the 17th 

 June, does not differ so much from the adult, as is customary 

 in this genus. It is much like the young birds already described, 

 but of a paler and duller brown throughout, and has the whole 

 of the feathers of the head, sides of the neck, and crest, white, 

 tinged fulvous on their terminal halves, and with a moderately 

 broad subterminal brown band, just as we see in the young of 

 other species of this genus, but instead of the lower parts being 

 yellowish white, unspotted and unbarred as in these latter, they 

 are in this species similar to the mature birds, but duller colored ; 

 only on the throat and chin a great deal of dull white is inter- 

 mingled, the tips alone of the feathers being brown. The cheeks 

 and ear-coverts also are more or less streaked and variegated 

 with fulvous. 



I may be in error, but I fancy that the young bird I have just 

 described was only about three months old; it may of course 

 have been fifteen months old. 



Mr. Davison remarks : — a This species is common at the 

 Andamans (specially about Mount Harriet and Port Mouat) 

 in comparison with the other Raptors that occur there. They 

 keep to the forest, or well-wooded gardens, though occasionally 

 they may be seen hunting, singly or in couples, over the paddy 

 flats, when these latter adjoin the forests or secondary jungle. 

 This bird continually utters a shrill shrieking cry, both whea 

 flying and seated. They feed chiefly on lizards, but I was 

 informed by the convicts that they frequently carry off young 



