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Catalogue of the Birds 



[July 



The male bird is throughout of an uniform dark clove brown, with 

 rather less vvhite about the belly and vent. 



Length of male 21, of female 27 inches : of the latter the wings are 

 18 ; tail II ; tarsus 21 ; middle toe 3 T \ths ; outer and inner toes, without 

 the claws, nearly equal. The irides of one of Mr. Elliot's specimens 

 were blood red. 



19. — P. Elliott'^ Jameson's Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (no 



description). 



The following account of this new species of honey-buzzard, I take 

 entirely from Mr. Elliot's notes, who met with it in the Southern Mah- 

 ratta country, and took home specimens, which are deposited in the Col- 

 lege Museum, Edinburgh, and in honour of whom it was named by Pro- 

 fessor Jameson, of Edinburgh. 1 have never met with it. 



Description. — Hind head considerably crested; colour above, brown^ 

 the crest and shades on the back very dark; head, neck, and middle 

 coverts very pale, intermixed with white; ocular band dark brown 

 cheeks and beneath white; throat with a few brown lines ; quills witl 

 darker bands on the inner webs; tail irregularly dark banded with 5 or 6 

 bands, edged with whitish, and passing into pale brown in the centre of 

 the intermediate spaces ; cere, legs and irides yellow; beak and talons 

 black, the former paler at base. In another specimen the space in fron 

 of the eyes and a band below the eyes also were dark, and the tail had 

 two broad dark bands near the base, and one near the tip, with between 

 them about six narrow pale' transverse stripes, also whitish extreme 

 tip.* 



Length of male about 2 feet ; beak l T 6 ^ths of an inch to front ; tail 10 

 inches, exceeding wings by 2\ or 3 inches ; tarsus 2 T \ ths ; middle toe 3 , 

 claw alone T 9 _.ths ; bill strong bent with scarcely a festoon; claws 

 strong, bent and channelled. In the stomach of one were some frag- 

 ments of black ants, some hair, and what was supposed to be the rough 

 skin of a monitor lizard : another had eaten honey, wax and bees. 



* It differs entirely from the former in having a smaller crest, and being altogether of a 

 light colour, and while beneath ; the Ptiloryhnchus being nearly black, dotted with white 

 beneath and under the wings,and the tail with fewer bands.— W. E. 



