342 Conspectus of the Ornithology of India. 



Genus Haliastur, Selby. 

 70. H. indus (PL Enl. 416). 



Syn. Falco indus, Boddaert. 



F. ponticerianus, Gmelin. 



Haliaetus girrenara, Vieillot. 



H. garruda, Lesson. 



Mitvus rotundicaudatus, Hodgson, young. 



Shankar Chil ('Shiva's kite), Dhobia CHI ('Washer- 

 man's Kite'), and Ruh-mubdrik ('lucky-faced,' i. e. 

 propitious), Hind. ; Khemahkari, Sanskrita ; Rutta 

 Ookab, Sindh (Bumes), also Pilyo ; Tswongoung 

 phyoo 3 Arakan (Phayre) ; Lang bondal s Sum. 

 (Raffles) ; Viang, Java (Horsfield). 

 Has. India and Malay countries ; extremely common ; replaced 

 by a nearly affined species in Australia, 



Genus Milvus, Cuvier. 

 71. M. govinda, Sykes. 



Syn. M. cheele, Jerdon. 



M. melanotis, Temminck. 



Haliaetus lineatus (?), Gray, Hard. III. Ind. Zool. 



Chil (from the voice), or Pariah Chil, H. ; Tswon- 

 bop, Arakan (Phayre). 

 Hab. S. E. Asia and its islands ; extremely common. In Lower 

 Bengal it disappears during the rainy season. 



Remark. The dark-plumaged Kites (Hydroictinia, Kaup,) are 

 widely diffused over the Old World and Australia, and among them 

 the African, M. cegyptius, (Falco cegyptius et F. Forskalli, Gm., and 

 F. parasitus, Daudin,) is well characterized by its yellow beak and 

 some other differences ; but we are not aware in what the Australian 

 (M. affinis, Gould), and that of Europe and " temperate Asia" 

 (Schlegel, — M. niger, Brisson), differ from that so abundant over all 

 S. E. Asia. Mr. Strickland refers the Indian bird to M. niger (of 

 which the synonymes cited by Mr. G. R. Gray are F. ater, Gmelin, 

 F. migrans, Boddaert, F. fusco-ater, Meyer, F. cinereo-ferrugineus, 

 Forster, Accipiter milvus, Pallas, and M. fuscus, Brehm.) We have 

 provisionally followed Mr. Gray and Prof. Kaup in regarding the 

 Indian Kite as distinct from M. niger, but greatly suspect that the 

 separation will be found premature, when more extensive series of spe- 

 cimens from the two regions shall have been carefully compared. 



