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with pale fawn ; tarsal feathers, and under tall coverts, unspotted ; 

 the Iming of the wing white, with brown spots. A further stage 

 is marked bj the spots beneath becoming much larger ; the thigh 

 coverts and tarsal feathers also marked with pale brown transverse 

 bands; and the bands on the tail fewer and narrower, except the 

 terminal one ; the chin, too, has a central dark brown line in. some, 

 and the feather below the ears from the gape are streaked with 

 dark brown. 



In the nearly adult bird the dark markings below are still moi'e 

 developed, and brownish black, and the upper surface also is 

 darker ; and in some the whole plumage is uniform dusky black 

 with an ashy tinge. Now and then one is met with, having a rudi- 

 mental crest, in some nearly three inches long. 



Length of male 25 inches; wing 16 ; tail 9-^ to 10 ; tarsus 3|- ; 

 mid-toe and claw 3. Irides bright yellow, brownish in the young ; 

 cere yellowish ; feet pale yellow. 



This small crested Eao;le is not rare about Calcutta and other 

 parts of Lower Bengal, extending to the Himalayas ; but I have 

 never obtained it in the South of India, nor is it to my knowledge 

 found in Central India or the Upper Provinces. It extends, how- 

 ever, into the Burmese and Malay countries, and to the Islands. 

 I observed it rather common in the jungles at the mouth of the 

 Rangoon river. Nothing remarkable is recorded of the habits of 

 this species. 



35. Limnaetus Cristatellus, Tem. 



Falco, apud Temminck, PI. col. 282 — Blyth, Cat. 105 (in 

 part) — HoRSF., Cat. 39, var. A. — Elliot, apud Jerdon, Cat. 

 12^ — F. Lathami, Tickell? — F. cirrhatus, Gmel? — Shah Baz, 

 H. — Jutic bhyri, Tel. 



The Crested Hawk-Eagle. 



Descr. — Young, pale brown above, head and neck fulvous 

 long occipital crest black, with white tip ; feathers of the head and 

 neck white edged ; beneath white, with some small light fulvous 

 or brown spots on the breast and lower parts. There is less white 

 on the wing coverts than in the young of the last, and the bars on 

 the tail are wider. 



