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one about an inch and a half. Gould’s very fine 
figure of this bird was from a specimen sent him by 
Baron Feldegg, which was killed in Austria. There 
is a specimen in the Norwich Museum, which was shot 
on the nest at Bar-le-duc, in France, which must 
therefore be added to its European nesting localities. 
Our information about this interesting bird is altogether 
very scanty. 
The specimen above alluded to in the Norwich 
Museum, has the head, nape, chest, belly, and under 
tail feathers white, with longitudinal ferruginous mark- 
ings, and darker central streaks on the feathers of the 
chest. On the head and nape the ground-colour is 
nearly lost, so as to appear dusky brown. Moustache 
darker, and well marked; primaries black; tail brown. 
The iris is said by Temminck to be dark brown; the 
cere and toes, by Degland, to be greenish yellow. 
Young birds are described as reddish brown above, 
more decidedly so on the head; light red below, with 
the streaks of a darker tint on the shafts of the 
feathers.—(Degland.) 
In the “Madras Journal,” vol. x., page 75, Mr. 
Jerdon remarks:—‘My attention was first called to this 
bird at Trinchinopoly, by Mr. Hooper, C.S., who shot 
a specimen in the act of pouncing on some of his 
pigeons. I occasionally afterwards recognised it, as I 
thought, among the Kites, and saw it attempt to swoop 
off chickens and pigeons. Its appearance in the air, 
and mode of flight much resemble that of the Kite; 
but the crows appear to distinguish it readily, and often 
clamorously pursue it.” 
The Rev. H. B. Tristram writes of this bird, in his 
“Catalogue of Eggs for 1857:’—<This symmetrical 
little bird, so like a Buzzard in repose, so unlike it 
