198 FROM THB GANGES TO THE GOD AVERT. 



18.— Aquila hastata, Less. (30). 



Sirguja ; Sambalpur, north of Mahanadi j Orissa, north of Mahanadi 

 Raipur ; Nowagarh and Karial. 



I have, on several occasions, in different parts of the more 

 hilly tracts of the area, seen a black or very dark Eagle, which, 

 I believe, must have been Neopus malaiensis, Reinw. 



Beavan probably alludes to the same bird, which he suggests 

 may be Milvus ater, P. Z. S., 1868, p. 399. 



[389.— Hieraetus pennatus, Gm. (31). 



Eaipur ; Sambalpur, east and west of Mahanadi ; Boad. — A. 0. H.] 



19.— Nisaetus fasciatus, Vieill. (33). 



Lohardugga. [Raipur ; Sambalpur j Boad. — A. O. H.] 



[390.— Limnaetus caligatus, Baffles. (34). 



Arung ; Raipur District. 



A single specimen outside, I should say, its normal range. 

 —A. 0. H.] 



20.— Limnaetus cirrhatus, Gmel. (35). 



Lohardugga ; Q-odaveri Valley. [Raipur ; Sambalpur. — A. O. H.] 



Measurements of Lohardugga specimen, in flesh :— 

 ? Length, 26 ; extent, 50 ; wing, 16' 5 ; tail, 11*5 ; tarsus, 

 4*5. Iris, golden. 



21. — Spizaetus lathami, Lath apud Tick. (35 bis). 



Singhbhum (Sirdah Borobhum).* 



This exceedingly troublesome title cannot be excluded from 

 our list. As the Marquis of Tweedale has pointed out f it 

 cannot from the measurements be made synonymous with 

 Baza lophotes. S. cirr/iatus, which I shot this year in Lohar- 

 dugga, and was obtained by Mr. Blanford in the Godaveri, is, 

 I believe, much more likely to have been the bird obtained by 

 Tickell.J 



22.— Lophotriorchis kieneri, Geoff. St. Hit. (37). 



Singhbhum. 



* I have, on a previous page, stated that Borobhum formerly belonged to Singh- 

 bhum ; it is now included in Manbhum. 



t Ibis, 1876, p. 340. 



j His dimensions are too small for this, whereas they agree with those. of the large 

 Indian Baza, which I have called incognita, (S. P., III., 313) and which may possibly 

 prove to be either B. sumatrensis, Lafres., or B.jerdoni, Blyth. One specimen of 

 this has been received from as far north as Native Sikhim, so that Tickell may well 

 have met with it in Singhbhum. — A . O. H, 



