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CATALOaUE. 
a. Calcutta. Presented by the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. 
h. Bengal. Presented by Dr. Falconer. 
" This species is very generally spread over the country. It affects 
chiefly the open plains and patches of cultivated ground. It may 
frequently be observed perched on a low tree, or even a bowrie pole, 
or seated on the bank of a river, whence it occasionally darts on its 
prey, but generally takes a long and lofty circling flight, or flies 
heavily along, but a few yards above the ground. The most 
favourite food of the Samp-mar is, as its Indian name implies, 
snakes. It will, however, take other food. Colonel Sykes found a 
rat in the stomach of one. I saw one strike at a wounded hare, and 
another make a swoop at a teal that was shot. Prom Mr. Elliot's 
* Notes ' I take the following : ' Pounces on snakes and guanas ; 
my Meer Shikar has seen them on the ground with their claws on 
the snake's head, its body coiled round the bird's wings, in which 
state the herd-boys sometimes kill them. The Terklees say it has a 
figure of the god Chukram under each wing, by which it prevents 
the snake going forward. In the stomach of one I foimd a snake, 
about two feet long, and a centipede.' " — (Jerd., Madr. Joum. L. S. 
X. p. 70.) 
Genus Pandion, Sav., Desc. de VEgyp. H. N. I. p. 95 (1809). 
IcuTHYAETUS, Lafr., Bev. Zool. (1839), p. 196. 
PoLioAETUs, Kaupj Isis (1847), p. 270. 
64. PANDION HALIAETUS, Linn. Sp. 
Falco haliaetus, Linn., S. N. I. p. 129. Lath., Hist. 
I. p. 58; PZ. Enl 414. Dr. F. (£.) Hamilt., 
MS. p. 4. 
Pandion haHaetus, Cuv., Reg. An. I. p. 316. Jerd., 
Madr. Journ. L. S. X. p. 64. G. R. Gray, Gen. 
of Birds, I. p. 17 ; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. p. 22. 
Hodgs., Cat. B. Nep. p. 42. Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. 
A. S. Beng. 29. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 16. 
Pandion fluvialis, Sav., Desc. de VEgyp. H. N. I. p. 96. 
Pandion indicus, Hodgs., Journ. A. S. Beng. VI. p. 366. 
The Osprey, Lath. 
Piah-Eagle or Fish-Hawk, Jerd. 
