. HALT^TUS. 83 



Mr. Hume (R. N. p. 245) describes a nestling female nearly able to 

 fly as a nearly uniform dai'k brown above and lighter below ; the legs 

 and feet a clear pale lemon yellow. 



Hab. — Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudh and Bengal ; Kutch, 

 Rajputana, the Western Coast and the Ooncan ; also Beloochistan, 

 Persia and Afghanistan. Ascends the Ganges and other lai-ge rivers ; 

 found also in Nepaul -and Cashmere. In the Concan and along the 

 Sind, Kutch andKattiawar OoastSj it is known as the Mutchee Mar or 

 Mutchlee Mung, 



The Ring-tailed Sea Eagle is found throughout the year in Sind, 

 along the Indus, and on the larger lakes. It breeds in the winter 

 months, (November, December and January), building a nest of twigs, 

 &c., from 4 to 5 feet in diameter, inclusive of the outer thin layer, 

 usually on high trees in the vicinity of water. Eggs usually 2, but 

 I have found a third and a fourth laid by the same bird a fortnight after 

 taking the two first ones. In colour they are white or greyish white 

 and unspotted, and measure 2| — 3 inches X 2^ to 2^. 



Halisetus albicillus, Linn. Sijst. Nat. i. p. ]23j Sharps, Cat. Ace. 

 p. 302. H. albicilla, Leaah. 8yst. 'Gat. Mam. ^c, B. M. p. 9; Gould. 

 Birds Eur. p. 10; McGUlivraij, Brit. B. iii. p. 221 ; Shelley, Birds 

 of Egypt, p. 204; Hume, S. Feathers, i. p. 159; id. RnughNotes, p. 257 ; 

 S. Feathers, vii. 341, 467; Murray, HdbJc., Zool., Sfc., Sind, p. 111. 

 Faloo albicilla, Gm. Syst. Nat. \. p. 253. Aquila albicilla, Pall. Zoogr. 

 Rosso. As. i. p. SI'S. Halisetus pelagicus, Hume, Rough Notes, ii. 

 p. 252. Haliaetus Brooksi, Hume, Ibis, 1870, p. 438. — The Bukopean 

 White-tailed Sea Eagle. 



Mais. — The legs and feet bright orange yellow. Gape and portion 

 of cere yellow, upper portion being yellowish brown. Bill blackish 

 horny , head, nape, cheeks, ear-coverts and sides of the neck, hair 

 brown ; all the feathers white at their bases, in some for the basal half, 

 in others for fully the basal two-thii-ds, but very little of the white 

 showing through, the feathers being densely set; all the feathers of 

 these parts long and linear, those of the occiput especially ; the back 

 of the neck, the whole of the back and rump, scapulars and wing- 

 coverts, except the greater primary coverts, as well as the feathers of 

 the breast and abdomen a warm buflfy fawn colour, changing to white 

 at their bases, and more or less broadly tipped with hair brown ; the 

 longer scapulars and the upper tail-coverts, which latter are very broad 

 and come down to within some four inches of the tip of the tail, a 

 mixture of yellowish and hair brown, mottled and freckled with white 

 and yellowish white ; tail, which is very wedge-shaped, dark brown, 

 mottled all oyer with dingy yellowish white, which colour predominates 

 on the inner webs; the quills, winglet, and greater primary coverts 

 chocolate brown ; the second to the 5th primaries conspicuously emar- 

 ginate on the outer web, and with a grey silvery tinge above the 

 emarginations ; the 1st to the 5th primaries conspicuously notched on 

 the inner webs ; the chin . and throat pale bufify brown, the feathers 

 whitish at the base and darker at the tips ; the flanks and thigh- 



