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markings. Feathers of the tarsus more or less pale brown, varied with 

 dark brown and irregularly spotted with white ; under wing-covert3 

 white, streaked with black, the lower ones entirely black with white tips > 

 axillaries white, barred and streaked with blackish. Quills deep brown, 

 mottled on the inner web with white. Tail ashy brown, inclining to 

 grey, with 5 — 6 indistinct bars of brown near the base, and a. broad 

 Bubterminal band of dark brown ; the tips of the feathers fulvous ; 

 cere and gape dingy yellow, bluish about the nostrils. Bill horn 

 black. Feet whitish brown, tinged with yellow. Iris yellow^ 



Length. — 26 inches, culmen 2'5, wing 21, tail 11'5, tarsus 4. 



Adult Male. — Length, 27 — 29 inches, wing 18 — 19-6, tail 11, tarsus 

 3'5. — [Sharps, Gat. Ace.) 



Hah. — Found in Southern Europe and the Mediterranean. Breeds 

 in Sind during December ; also in the Punjab, where, as well as in 

 the N. W. Provinces, Persia, Beloochistan, and Southern Afghanistan, 

 it is not uncommon. It is also recorded from Kutch, Guzerat, the 

 Deccan, Concans, Central and Southern India, the Carnatic, and in 

 fact the entire Indian Peninsula. 



Nissetus pennatus, {Falco apud Gm.) Sys. Nat. i. p. 272; Tern, 

 pi. col. i. pi. 33; Sharpe, Gat. Ace. p. 253. Aquila pennata, Vig. Zool. 

 Journ. ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 14 ; Jerdon, B, of Ind. p. 63, No. §1 ; Layard. 

 B. S. Afr. p. 10 ; Murray, Hdhh., Zool., Sfc, Sind. Hieratus 

 ■pennatus, Kaup. Mus. Sench. iii. p. 260; Blyth, J. A. S. 5. xv. p. 7> 

 Hume, Bough Notes i. p. 182; S. F. vol. vii. ipp. 74, 198 ; viii. 162 

 1 X '307. — The Dwarf or Booted Eagle. 



Headand neck, behind, and on the sides, rufous or pale orange brown, 

 the feathers lanceolate and streaked mesially with dark brown ; some 

 of the lengthened feathers entirely dark brown and forming a not 

 very apparent crest. A narrow superciliary stripe ; a band from the 

 angle of the mouth below the ear-coverts, and a central chin stripe 

 dark brown. Ear-coverts rufescent brown; back, scapulars and wing- 

 coverts, sepia brown ; the median wing-coverts, and some of the 

 scapulars broadly edged with fulvous white, forming a conspicuous 

 wing band ; rump and upper tail-coverts like the back, the latter shading 

 from dull fawn brown to buffy white on their margins and tips. Tail 

 dull sepia brown, shaded with ashy, tipped with fulvous white, and 

 with 4^5 indistinct bars of darker brown, more distinct on the under 

 surface. Primaries dark brown, inclining to ashy white basally on 

 their inner webs; secondaries indistinctly barred with dull brownish 

 white. Under surface of body rufous, buffy, or fulvous white, deeper 

 on the breast, and streaked with dark brown, the streaks disappearing on 

 the abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts, which are white. Under 

 wing-coverts white with a few narrow shaft-streaks. Cere and gape 

 bright wax yellow; bill bluish black, pale blue at the base; feet pale 

 wax yellow ; iris pale brown. 



Length, i^emaZe.— 19— 24 inches, wing 15-5 to 16, tail 9 to 9-25, tarsus 

 2-8. The young bird is paler beneath, the breast rufous or fulvous with 



