82 FALCON [DiE. 



Halieetus, Savigny. — Bill straight at the base^Jongish, compressed, 

 curved towards the tip, which is much hooked; margin of upper 

 mandible sinuate; wings long; 4th and 5th quills sub-equal, longest; 

 tarsus plumed for nearly half its length; lower half of tarsus scutellate. 



Haliaetus leucoryphas, Pallas. Reis. Evss. Eeichs, i. p. 454; 

 'Keys, and Bias. Wirh. Eur. p. xxx. ; Strich. Orn. Syn. p. 52 ; Hume, 

 Bough Notes, ii. p. 242; Stray Feathers, i. pp. 102-159; Huire and 

 Henderson, Lahore to Yarkand, p. 173; Blanford, Eastern Persia, 

 p. 112; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. B. M. p. 309; Murray, Hdbh., Zool., ^-c, 

 Bind, p. 111. H. fulviventer, Jcrd. B. Ind. i. p. 82, No. 42. Ichthyistus 

 leucoryphus, Blyth. Ann. and M. N. H. xv. p. 37. Cuncuma macei. 

 Gray, Gat. Ace. p. 23.— The Eing-tailed Sea Eagle. 



Adult Male: — Above dark brown, with a slight purplish gloss; some 

 of the greater coverts slightly margined with paler brown ; quills 

 blackish; the secondaries rather browner like the scapulars ; the lower 

 surface of the quills brown, inclining to bluish ash colour on the inner web 

 of the primaries ; some of the secondaries mottled with white near the 

 base of the inner web ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts purplish 

 brown, some of the outermost of the latter whitish at base; tail white, 

 blackish at base, with a broad black terminal band. Head, hind neck 

 and interscapulary region sandy-brown ; the feathers of the head and 

 hind neck streaked with fulvous. Sides of face and throat buffy white, 

 the latter with narrow whitish streaks down the centre of the feathers ; 

 rest of under surface of body dull fulvous brown, lighter on the 

 chest, where the feathers are paler centred, and deeper brown on the 

 flanks, thighs and under tail-coverts. Under wing-coverts and axillarics 

 blackish brown, slightly mottled with white. Cere pale bluish green. 

 Nostrils, gape, and base of lower mandible bluish. Upper mandible 

 greenish hom colour, dusky at tip ; feet greyish white ; iris pale 

 brownish yellow. 



Length. — 30 inches, culmen 2-6, wing 22-2, tail 12'2, tarsus 3'6. 



Adult Female. —Length, 33 inches, wing 24*4, tail ll-7,*tarsus 4-3. 



Young.— Ahove dark brown, the feathers of the back deeper towards 

 their bases ; the wing-coverts lighter than the back, and the upper tail- 

 coverts plainly margined with wbity-brown ; greater coverts dark 

 brown with whity-brown tips; quills blackish, externally shaded with 

 ashy; the innermost secondaries dark brown like the back ; lower sur- 

 face of quills ashy brown, some of the innermost primaries inclining 

 to whitish on inner web ; tail dark brown, shaded with ashy above 

 and below; head, neck, and under parts fulvous brown, deeper on the 

 head and varied with white bases to the abdominal plumes and under 

 tail-coverts ; the head and neck rather darker than the under parts and 

 streaked with sandy brown ; the chest and breast feathers with broad 

 whity-brown margins and tips; under wing-coverts dull brown, 

 margined with paler brown ; the median series streaked with whity- 

 brown, the greater ones ashy white at the base and mottled along the 

 shaft towards the tip, which is also white ; feet clear lemon yellow. 

 {Shar^jc). 



