STRAY FEATHERS. 



Vol. III.] NOVEMBER, 1875. [No. 5. 



Uotcs jok some Duvmcsc girta. 



By Eugene W. Oates, c.e. 



I shall confine the present notes to those birds which are not 

 jet entitled to a place in the Avifauna of the tract already 

 dealt with by Mr. Hume, viz., Upper Pegu, comprised between 

 the Irrawaddy and Sittang Rivers, and the frontier and the 

 latitude of Poungday. Nor do I wish to anticipate any of the 

 information which Mr. Hume will shortly give us relative to 

 the birds of Tenasserim, met with by Mr. Davison. I shall 

 therefore exclude from this list those birds, the names of which 

 are printed in ordinary type in the list at page 467 of Vol. II., 

 li Stray Feathers." 



42.— Haliaetus leucoryphus, Pall. 



The Indian Ring-tailed Fishing Eagle is a common bird along 

 the banks of the Sittang River and the network of tidal creeks 

 which intersect the country on the western side up to the Pegu 

 River. 



In a fine adult male, the iris was dusky yellow ; the cere 

 and gape, light plumbeous ; bill, dark plumbeous ; lower eyelid, 

 pale greenish, the upper one, bluish ; legs and toes, dull 

 white ; claws, black. 



The dimensions were : — Length, 32'0 ; expanse, 80*0 ; tail, 

 12-2; wing, 23-0; tarsus, 4-03 ; bill from gape, 2-65; differ- 

 ence between the longest and shortest tail feathers, '7 ; these 

 dimensions are all greater than those of males given by Mr. 

 Hume in his " Rough Notes." 



I took three young from a nest on the 17th January. The 

 eldest one was a huge fellow seemingly about 10 or 12 days 

 old, while the youngest one was very small and appeared to 

 be only three or four days old. The third one was inter- 

 mediate in size to the other two. 



43.— Haliaetus leucogaster, Gm. 



Seen once, flying over the Rangoon Cantonment, by Mr. 

 Davison and myself. 



