378 AVIFAUNA OF CHOTA NAGPUR. 



referable to that species. I mention this as I am aware that 

 others have made the same mistake. The length of the central 

 toe* and the barrings on the tail feathers will always serve to 

 distinguish the two species whatever the resemblance may be 

 in the under-plumage. - 



9.— Aquila hastata, Less. (30.) 



I have one specimen of the Long-legged Eagle from Sirguja. 

 It was shot on the 25th of December 1872 in one of the open 

 grassy plains. As to its identificationl have no doubt, as I possess 

 specimen of this species which was given me by Mr. Brookes. 

 Sirguja sex ? Wing 18' ; Tail 9*3 ; Tarsus 4 ; Bill from gape 2*1 

 loc? ? „ 18-8 „ 10-5 „ 3-8 „ „ „ 2-3. 



10 bis.— Spizaetus Lathami, Latham apud 

 Tickell (35.) 



The small size of this Hawk-Eagle seems to justify its 

 separation from >S, cirrhatus with which it has been generally 

 identified. Colonel TickelPs description in full runs as follows : — 



" Male. — From head to tip of tail 18 inches ; breadth of wings 

 (extent f) 40 inches ; eyes orange yellow ; bill and cere bluish ; 

 top of head in front grey ; sinciput pale orange brown ; feathers 

 streaked dark and produced into a long horizontal crest, the 

 end feathers of which are black, tipped with white ; face and 

 auriculars ashy ; back of neck and top of back pale rusty ; 

 feathers centred dark grey brown ; whole of back, scapulars, 

 primaries and part of tertials dark clouded rich brown ; coverts of 

 wines pale rusty, clouded gray, brown and blotched with white 

 spots ; some of the tertials the same ; greater coverts reddish 

 ash brown ; tail dark greyish brown, barred broadly with dark 

 brown and tipped obscurely white (as are the tertials.) Under- 

 parts white, streak of black down centre of throat ; neck white, 

 tinged rusty ; broad bars of rusty on breast and belly, spots of 

 the same on the thighs ; legs clothed with short white feathers 

 to the feet, which are of- a horny color; exposed part of the 

 tarsi reticulated ; claws black and solid ; the head is broad ; 

 eyes protruding ; crest erectile ; bill with scarcely any notch ; 

 legs short and stout; body muscular and compact." 



" This subject was killed at Sisda in Borabhum in dense bambu 

 jungle occupying the interval between two ranges of hills. It 

 was one of a pair ; the other, probably the female, appeared 

 larger and showed more white on the wing. They perched 



* And the slenderness of the tarse. — Ed., S. F„ 



