1836.] Summary Description of New Falconida. 227 



diery occasionally. A web of six yards long by two feet broad, costs three 

 current rupees. The manufacture of this article is confined principally to 

 the larger towns of the valley. 

 17. Bhim Poga. — (Newari.) An ancient manufacture and article of clothing 

 of the Newars, but not worn by them in the present day. Is wore only by 

 a class of outcasts, and is with difficulty procurable ; its only use at pre- 

 sent is, to roll the corpse of religious persons in previous to being burned. 

 The warp, is of coarse cotton thread, the woof of soft spun woollen yarn, 

 in addition to which some fine wool is amalgamated with the web in weaving 

 it. Its texture is very soft, and is well calculated for a warm in-door wear ; 

 it is too fleecy to be kept out wet. A piece of four feet long by two feet 

 wide, costs two current rupees. 



V. — Summary Description of some New Species of Falconidce. By 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 



Genus Aquila. Species new. Aquila Pernigra. Jetty Eagle, (mini.) 

 Habitat, the central and northern regions of Nepal. 



This species is throughout of a black colour, but less pure below 

 than above, and the tail is transversely marked with four or five broad 

 bands of a paler and brownish hue. The cere and toes are bright 

 yellow. The bill blue, with a black tip ; the talons black, and the iris 

 brown. It is a bird of somewhat slender form, and very graceful and 

 powerful"flight, possessing all the influential characters of the genus, 

 as now restricted ; but distinguished from its type, or chrysactos, by a 

 slenderer bill, rather longer toes, and longer and more acute talons. It 

 is two feet five inches from tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and 

 five feet and a half between the wings ; and is chiefly remarkable for 

 the extreme inequality of size and acuteness of the talons. The orbits 

 are downy ; the sides of the cere clad in short, soft hairs ; and the 

 feathers of the hind head and neck are prolonged into a vague crest 

 of narrow composed plumes. The cere is rather large, but not heavy ; 

 the bill longer than the head, but slight rather in form. The wings 

 are equal to the tail, with the fourth quill longest, and all the great ones 

 strongly emarginated, remotely from their tips ; the tips being inclined 

 a little inwards : tail even, or subrounded. 



The tarsi moderate and plumed; toes nude and reticulate, with 

 three or four scales next the talons, which, as already noticed, are 

 very acute, and the inner fore and hind ones of extreme length and 

 curve. The inner fore talon is the largest, then the hind one, next 

 the central, and the outer fore, least. 



The nares are obliquely cleft in the cere, and of an irregular oval 

 shape, with the upper margin arched and tumid. 

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