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CATALOGUE. 
The Crested Honey Buzzard, Jerd. 
Shahutela (from Shahud, " honey "), Hind., Jerd. 
Madhava (from Madhu, " honey "), Nepal, Hodgs. 
A. Bengal. Presented by Dr. Boyle. 
h. Calcutta. Presented by the Asiatic Society of 
" I have only met with this bird in the jungles of the western 
coast and Neilgherries. It is by no means common. I occasionally 
saw it seated on a tree, alternately raising and depressing its pe- 
culiarly-formed crest, and on the Neilgherries frequently saw it 
questing diligently backwards and forwards over the dense woods 
there. I procured a female at the foot of the Conoor pass, and a 
male on the summit of the hills. Their usual flight is rather slow, 
but I once observed one flying much more rapidly than in general, 
with a continued motion of its wings, and every now and then at- 
tempting to hover, which it did with its wings turned very obliquely 
upwards. This seemed a great exertion to it, and was very clumsily 
performed. In the stomach of the female I shot, was a soft green 
mass, which looked like vegetable matter, but which was, probably, 
the half-digested remains of green caterpillars. In the stomach of 
the male there was a large quantity of pure honey. (Mr. Elliott 
found the hair of a rat in the stomach of one ; in another, ants, 
wax, and honey.) The female contained an egg ready for expulsion, 
which was very different in colour from that of the English Honey- 
Buzzard figured in the * Naturalist's Library,' and closely resembled 
that of the common European Kite." — (Jerd., Madr. J. L. S. X. 
p. 73.) 
Earn. III. STBIGID^, Leach, 
Subfam. I. NOCTUINA, Vigors. 
Genus Athene, Boie, Isis (1822), p. 549. 
NocTFA, Sav.f Desc. de VEggp. H. N. 1. p. 105. 
Caeine, Kaup, Nat. Sgst. der Uur. Thier. p. 29 (1829). 
Ntctipetes, Swains., Class, of Birds, II. p. 218 (1837). 
NiNox, Hodgs., Journ. A. S. Beng. (1837), p. 364. 
