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[). FAdUILA MALAYBR8I8, T« nimiiick. 



Black Eagle. 



In Rnpshoo in Ladakfa I saw an eagle about the dze of tin i 



clinj.stirtos (colour black, bul head and Deck white, tail long and 

 wedge-shaped), probably belonging to this species. 



10. IIaliaktus macei, Temminck. 



Mace's Eagle. 



Met with all up the Indus and its branches ; very common on the 



Jhelum in the Valley of Cashmere. Its favourite haunts are low 

 level shores, where it is often seen perched on a rock or decayed 

 trunk of a tree, intently watching for fish. I have seen it frequenth 

 feeding on offal and the remnants of sheep and goats slaughtered 

 for the use of the regiment during a march through Scinde. There 

 is much variety in regard to colour. The bird after two years ba- 

 the head and neck of a dirty white, body and wings black, rump and 

 tail white, the latter broadly tipped with black, xoung birds of the 

 first year have very little white on the tail ; and the head and Deck 

 are rufous. Its cry is loud, and resembles the cackle of the domestic 

 fowl. They are very abundant on the Jhelum river and lakes of 

 Cashmere, and so tame that boats may approach within a few yards 

 of them. The iris is light brown. In the month of December 1852, 

 a pair built on a pepul tree in the vicinity of a marsh close to Rawul 

 I'indcc ; and by the end of the following month the young were 

 batched. I frequently observed the parents hunting in a pond for 

 fish and dead snipe killed by sportsmen. 



11. IIaliastur i.ndis, lioddaert. 



Common on the Indus. Has much the habits of the Govind 

 Kite ; feeds on refuse as well as fish. Does imi seem to frci|iient 

 the rivers of the Punjaub, although very common in Scinde. 



12. MlLvtTS govinda, Sykes. 

 Govind Kite. 



There is considerable variety in colour of plumage in this Bpecies . 

 scarcely two specimens are exactly similar. I have Bhof Govind 

 Kites so dark of plumage, that I could not discover the Blightesl 

 difference between tliis bird and M. aterof Gmelin: I believe tiny 



are identical. Abundant all omt Bombay, Bengal, and the lower 



range of the Western Himalayas. 



One aftern i, when the Bteamer was drawn Dp by the bank <>t 



the Indus, 1 observed a aative washerman close by eating his fowl 



and curry. lie was lm-y devouring B wing, when down dropped a 



kite, and actually, by means of its talons, tore the wing from between 

 lii> teeth, devouring the capture as it Bailed away. A fen weeks 

 afterwards, while Bailing op the Sutlej river in -mall coontrj b 



we balled at noon on a wet and sandy beacb, for the DOrpOM "I allow 



rag onr party time to cook their dinner-. A- the - d women 



were returning from the cooking-station about 30 yards from the 



