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28.— Aquila nsevia, Gm. 



This species was by far the commonest eagle in Sinclh, and 

 scores were to be met with in the neig-hbourhood of every large 

 piece of water. Every clump of tamarisk trees standing well 

 out into the water, as is so commonly the case in the broads of 

 Sindh, was almost certain to be crowned by one of these black- 

 looking eagles ; else where I have generally found them subsist- 

 ing almost exclusively on frogs, here to my astonishment, I 

 twice shot them in the act of devouring fish, and on several 

 occasions saw them strike at, and once or twice actually carry 

 away, snipe and other small water birds that we had wounded. 

 Whereas in other parts of the countiy outside the. sub-Himalayan 

 belt, navia is a cold weather visitant, and most of the birds 

 seen are young ones, in the strongly spotted stage of plumage ; 

 in Sindh the species is a permanent resident, and as I ascer- 

 tained from the fishermen, regularly breeds there in April and 

 May, and scarcely a single bird was obtained in any but the 

 dark adult plumage, with more or less white tarsi. One fine 

 female measured : — 



Length, 28*4; expanse, 66 ; wing, 31; wings, when closed, 

 reach to within 1 of end of tail : tail, from vent, 11 ; weight, 

 5'25 lbs. Another measured, length, 29 : wing, 21'4. 



29.— Aquila fulvescens, G^ray/^>7 r- -t/^a i^^Mvn 



This species was pretty common throughout the less desert 

 portions of Sindh and in the neighbourhood of all the larger 

 " dJiunds" but much less common in lower Sindh ; a fine 

 female shot at the Munchur Lake, measured 2 8' 5 in length; 

 expanse, 66 ; and weight, 4"75 lbs. We got the eggs on two 

 occasions. 



33.— Pseudaetus bonellii^ Tem. 



One, two, or more pairs of this fine hawk eagle are to be met 

 with about every large lake in Sindh making terrible havoc 

 amongst the smaller water birds, and carrying off wounded fowl, 

 before one^s eyes with the greatest impudence. They breed in 

 the Province and inter alia in the interior of the Khelat Hills in 

 places where perennial streams issue from these. I killed a fine 

 female in the interior of the Nurree Nai at the end of January 

 from her nest, which then contained two young ones just 

 able to fly. I saw another nest higher up the same stream, 

 placed like the first on a shelf of a rocky cliff overlooking the 

 water; this was inaccessible, but it contained, I could see, young 

 birds. Another nest I found in the Gaj which contained, I think, 

 eggs (very late for this species) , but it also was quite inaccessible. 



