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with pale ends, appearing as spots, forming a regular series at the 

 ends of the greater coverts, and second qnills ; the greater and outer 

 edge of the wing black ; thighs and vent plain buff-colour, the 

 feathers reaching beyond the joint — the rest of the legs downy ; legs 

 yellow; under parts of the tail pale brownish. 



The nest is large, made of sticks, and lined with soft grass ; 

 the young, two in number. Those found in a nest at Futtehguhr, 

 were covered only with white down, and quite to the toes — Bill black; 

 cere pale ; lore pale blue ; toes ilesh-colour. 



In the same drawings is one nearly similar, — 2 ft. 8 or 9 in. — 

 general colour brown, the feathers with paler margins ; place of the 

 bastard wing white ; greater coverts and second quills dusky, with 

 pale flesh-coloured ends ; great quills black ; vent and tail coverts 

 white ; tail black ; tip pale or white ; the wings reach three-fourths 

 on the tail ; legs feathered to the toes, with bro^vll feathers ; bill deep 

 blue black; cere, nape, and legs, yellow. 



72.— KUMPA-MAUR EAGLE. 



LENGTH 22 in. ; breadth 2 ft. 5 in. Bill black and stout, but 

 with scarcely any appearance of a notch or process in the upper 

 mandible ; cere cinereous ; head dirty white, the feathers pointed, 

 stiff, with black shafts ; upper parts of the body, and wings, dark 

 brown ; breast ferruginous ; tail white, rather short, the tips and 

 edges of the feathers inclining to ash-colour ; quills dusky, and the 

 wings, when closed, reach to the end of the tail ; legs stout, pale 

 yellow, and the feathers of the thighs long, extending a considerable 

 way on the shins ; claws black. 



Inhabits India, called Kumpa-Maur. — Dr. Buchanan. 



