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again saw it sitting sluggishly on the sandy beach close to the sea ; 
and again, near Calicut, saw a pair skimming very closely over some 
low bushy ground. The stomach of the specimen I procured was 
empty. The fishermen at Ponany assert that it lives chiefly on fish, 
and frequently carries one off" from their boats or nets. It doubtless, 
however, varies its food according to opportunity. Its flight at first 
after rising is heavy, but when once fairly on the wing, easy and 
powerful, rising to a great height by large and graceful swoops." — 
(Madr. Journ. L. S. X. p. 65.) 
Mr. Blyth remarks : " In the stomach were found three small 
water-snakes, some articulge of Crustaceans, the humerus of a bird, 
and the remains of a small rodent." — (Journ. A. S. B. XI. p. 110.) 
" This is a bold and formidable-looking bird, but shy and solitary, 
frequenting desert islands in the Grulf of Siam, and generally seen 
soaring at a great height above the wooded hills. It would appear 
to live chiefly on fish. Its flight is slow, but bold and vigorous, yet 
not rapid." — (Finlayson's MS. Notes.) 
Genus Haliastur, Selby^ List Gen. et Buhgen.^ ^c. p. 3 
(1840). 
Ictinoaetus, Kaupf Glass, der Sceug. und Voeg. p. 122 
(1844). 
Dentigeb, Hodgs. Groy, Zool. Misc. (1844), p. 81. 
69. HALIASTUR INDUS, Bodd. Sp. 
Palco indus, Bodd., Tab. des Bl. enl. d'Auh. p. 25. 
Haliastur indus,* G. B. Gray, List Gen. of Birds, p. 4 ; 
Gen. of Birds, I. p. 18 ; Gat. B. Brit. Mus. p. 27. 
Hodgs., Gat. B. Nep. p. 43. Blyth, Gat. B. Mus. 
A. S. Beng. p. 31. 
Falco ponticerianus, Gmel., S. N. L. I. p. 265. Lath., 
Hist. I. p. 147. Horsf, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 
p. 136. Baffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. p. 278. 
Haliaetus ponticerianus, Sykes, P. Z. S. (1832), p. 78. 
Milvus pondicerianus, Jerd., Madr. Journ. L. S. X. 
p. 72. 
Dentiger pondicerianus, Hodgs. Gray, Zool. Misc. 
(1844), p. 81. 
Haliastur ponticerianus, apud Bonap., G. G. Av. p. 15. 
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