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and many may daily be seen together sitting on a dead tree, or the 
parapet of a house, pruning and sunning themselves, while others 
are sailing about above them. 
Their often-repeated cry is a tremulous shrill squeal (whence the 
native appellation, Cheele) resembling that of the British Kite. 
They subsist mainly on filth and refuse, but will readily pick up 
a chick or wounded bird, and I once knew one to kill a full-grown 
hen ; this, however, was considered rather an anomalous occurrence ; 
and they seem to be generally on excellent terms with the crows, 
though I have been told, and on good authority, that a kite will 
sometimes seize a crow, probably when pressed by hunger, albeit 
the uproarious clamour of all the crows in the neighbourhood, sure 
to collect on such an occasion, might suffice to deter him from 
doing so a second time. During the rainy season, the Kites 
totally leave Calcutta for three or four months, not, however, 
for breeding, for the young have then all flown." — (Ann. Nat. 
Hist. XII. p. 92.) 
Dr. r. Buchanan Hamilton in his MS., remarks, " When full, it 
delights to sit on the entablatures of buildings, where it exposes 
its back to the hottest rays of the sun, placing its breast against 
the wall and stretching out its wings exactly as the Egyptian Hawk 
is represented on their monuments." 
III. ACCIPITEINiE. 
Genus Spizaetus, Vieill, A nalys. etc. p. 24 (1816). 
Plumipeda, Flem. FJiil. of Zool. II.;?. 234 (1822). 
Harpyia, Bpix.y Av. Bras. I. (1824). 
LiMNAETUs, Vigors, Mem. JRaffl. App. p. 649 (1880). 
NisAETus, Hodgs., Journ. A. S. B. (1836),^. 227. 
Spizastur, Less., Compl. Buff. Yll. p. 88 (1837). 
LoPHAETus et Pterura, Kttup. 
38. SPIZAETUS LIMNAETUS, Horsf. Sp. 
Falco limnseetus, Horsf., Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 138 ; 
Zool. Ees. in Java. Lath., Hist. I. p. 164. G. B,. 
Gray, Gen. of Birds. I. p. 14. Hodgs., Cat. B.Nep. 
p. 41. Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 24. 
