MALAYAN ORNITHOLOGY. es 
dash along under the verandahs of the bungalows in the Tanglin 
barracks right into the midst of a flock of tame pigeons, scatter- 
ing them in all directions. During the following week I obtained 
two, which, in the excitement of their chase after the pigeons, 
flew into the barrack-rooms and were caught. One of these I kept 
for some weeks; and it became fairly tame, taking raw meat and 
small birds from my hand. It was a young male, its irides being 
pale yellowish brown, and the dark brown feathers of the upper 
parts blotched with white and edged with rusty brown. Length 
104 inches, tarsus barely 2 inches, legs greenish yellow, beneath 
white with a slight rufous tinge, and having long, oval, brown 
drops on the breast, and bands on the abdomen and flanks; tail 
ashy grey with brown bars. 
In November, 1879, while collecting on Pulau Battam, one of the 
thickly wooded islands near Singapore, I saw a pair of these 
Hawks, and shot one of them while in hot pursuit of a small bird. 
It was a male; length about 11% inches, tarsus 2 inches, legs 
yellowish green, tail ashy grey crossed with dusky bars. The 
plumage of the upper parts was of a much darker brown than 
in the above-described specimen ; still the feathers were all edged 
with rufous brown, and the underparts white, which, according to 
Dr. JeRvon, is characteristic of the immature bird ; he also states 
the mature male to have the breast and flanks almost ferruginous. 
LIMNAETUS CALIGATUS (Raffles). 
This Hawk-Hagle breeds in Pérak. Near Kwala Kangsa, du-. 
ring May, 1877, I obtained a nestling, so young that it was a mere 
ball of fluffy down. It throve wonderfully, its appetite being 
simply insatiable, and rapidly grew into a very handsome bird, so 
tame that I could handle it with impunity. 
Its usual perch was on a rung of the ladder leading up into one 
of the huts occupied by the men of my company, with whom it 
was a great favourite; and when the troops were withdrawn from 
Pérak it accompanied us, along with wild cats, monkeys, lorikeets, 
and pets of all kinds, to Singapore, where I placed it in the aviary 
of the Botanical Gardens. . 
In December, 1880, when I left the Straits, the bird, then nearly 
three years old, was in a very flourishing state, but had 
