ACCIPITRES. 



FALC0NIM1. 



AQUILINE. 



Genus PEENIS. 

 Bill long, rather weak, curved from the base, the tip not much hooked, wide at the base, 

 the sides slanting from the culm en to the margin, which is not festooned ; cere much advanced 

 and bare. Nostrils linear, oblique, overlapped by the membrane of the cere. Lores feathered like 

 the forehead. Wings moderately long, pointed ; the 3rd and 4th quills subequal and longest. 

 Tail rather long, broad, even at the tip. Tarsus stout, shorter than the middle toe, the upper 

 half plumed in front, and the remainder covered with small reticulate scales. Toes protected 

 above with narrow bony transverse scales ; lateral toes rather long and subequal. Claws acute, 

 rather straight, trenchant beneath. Tibial plumes reaching down to the foot. Head usually 

 furnished with an occipital and somewhat scanty crest. Eyes placed in the head posterior to 

 the gape. 



PEENIS PTILONORHYNCHUS. 



(THE INDIAN HONEY-BUZZARD.) 



Falco ptilorhynchus, Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 44 (1823). 



Pernis jrtilonorhynchus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pi. 35 (1826); Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, 

 p. 414 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds, i. p. 347 (1874) ; Ball, Str. Feath. 1874, p. 381; Hume, Nests 

 and Eggs, p. 56 (1874) ; Legge, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 364 ; Butler, ibid. p. 448 ; Tweed- 

 dale, Ibis, 1877, p. 286. 



Pernis cristata, Cuv. Regn. An. i. p. 335 (1829) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A S. B. p. 18, no. 82 

 (1849) ; Horsf. and Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.I. Co. no. 74, p. 63 (1854) ; Jerd. B. of Ind. 

 i. p. 108 (1862) ; Wall, Ibis, 1868, p. 17; Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 330 (1870). 



Pernis torquata, Less. Traite, p. 76 (1831). 



Pernis ritfcollis, Less. /. c. p. 77 (1831). 



Pernis albigularis, Less. 1. c. p. 77 (1831). 



Pernis apivorus, Temm. and Schl. Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 24 (1850). 



The Crested Honey -Buzzard of some authors. 



Madhava, Nepalese, from madhu (honey); Shahutela, Hind., from shahud (honey); Tenngedda, 

 Tel. ; Ten Prandu, Tam. ; Jutalu, Yerklees ; Malsmvari of the Mharis (Jerdon). 



Rajaliya, Sinhalese. 



Adult male. Length to front of cere 23 - 5 to 24-5 inches : culmen from cere 1-0 ; wing 15"5 to 15-8 ; tail 9 - to 

 10-3 ; tarsus 1-9 to 2-0 ; middle toe 1-9 to 2-1, its claw (straight) 0-95 ; height of bill at cere 0-38 to 0-4. 



Female. Length to front of cere 24-5 to 25-5 inches ; culmen from cere TO to 1-1 ; wing 15 - 7 to 17 - 9 ; tail 10-0 to 

 11-5 ; tarsus 1-9 to 2-1 ; middle toe 1-9 to 2-2, its claw (straight) 1-0 to 1-02 ; height of bill at cere 0-4S. Expanse 

 of an example with a wing of 16-5, 5o - 0. 



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