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scale-like feathers at the sides of the head. The Crested Honey 
Buzzard (Pernis fflilonorhyfichus) may serve as an example. — 
The Black Crested Baza or Cuckoo Falcon [Baza lophotes) is a 
small and handsome bird, black above, with the exception of a 
white bar across the wings, and white, barred with brown, 
below. Its long erectile crest adds much to its beauty. — The 
dwarfs amongst the Falcons are the Falconets. They are hardly 
bigger than a lark. The Black-legged Falconet or B. lang 
belalang {Mkrohierax fringillarius) is a pretty bird with black 
pljumage above, and with white spots on the inner webs of the 
feathers of wings and tail.— The Peregrine Falcon (Faico 
peregnnus), ranging all 'over Europe and Northern Asia, is 
occasionally seen here in the winter. — The Kestrel or Wind- 
hover ( Cerchneis tinnuncidm^ Tinnunculus alaudarius), has a simi- 
lar distribution and visits here during the cold season too. 
The third group of the ' Hawk-like Birds ' are the 
Ospreys and Fishing Eagles. They are a small family, com- 
prising only about half a dozen species which, with one excep- 
tion, occur all in the Eastern Hemisphere and occupy an in- 
termediate position between the Hawks and Owls. They re- 
semble the former in ttieir general appearance and especially 
in the position of their eyes, but the latter in their outer toes 
being reversible, i.e. they can be turned forwards or backwards 
at will. The structure of their leg bones and the absence of an 
aftershaft to their feathers also point to a close relationship 
with the owls. They feed almost exclusively upon fish, and to 
enable them to get a firm hold of their slippery prey, the scales 
of the soles of their feet are hard and almost spike-like. The 
Osprey or Fish-Hawk {PandioH haliaelm) is found almost over 
the whole of the Old World and occurs in the Malay Peninsula 
too, but is not yet represented in the collection. Exhibited is 
Hodgson's Fishing Eagle (Polioaettis kumilis), a species which 
ranges from Burma and the Malay Peninsula through the 
Archipelago as far as Celebes. 
The Owls differ from the other Birds of Prey (IJ by their 
large and forward directed eyes ; (2) by their soft and fluffy 
plumage, generally of mottled colouring ; (3) by the outer or 
fourth toe being reversible, i.e. being able to be placed forwards 
or backwards at will, the usual position being that the 2nd and 
3rd toes are placed in front, and the 1st and 4th toes behind the 
perch ; (4) by being mostly nocturnal, the other Birds of Prey 
being chiefly diurnal To these characters may be added that 
most owls have ' ear-tufts,' a bunch of feathers which projects 
hornlike above the eyes, and that most of them have a. ' facial 
