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Mr. Everett, who arrived at Macassar on September 1894 (IS)^ sent 
specimens to the Tring Museum and reported it to be common. Drs. Sarasin, 
as shown above, obtained a young male in December, 1894, but a female in 
worn plumage in July, 1895. It is thus clear that the species occurs in Celebes 
all the year round, though it may be more plentiful in the months of the 
northern winter. 
This species appears to he an inhabitant of the plains, and its presence in 
the southern Peninsula up to Luwu at the head of the Gulf of Boni is an 
interesting fact when contrasted with the occurrence of its fellow-species B. in- 
dicus in the north of Celebes, While the latter is absent in the south. Whether 
B. liventer visits S. Celebes on migration or not, there is no doubt that it came 
into the island from the south-west, while B. indicus comes to N. Celebes every 
autumn from the north-west. 
Buteo desertorum Vie ill. 
A single specimen in the Leyden Museum labelled North Celebes (v. Faber, 
1883). According to Dresser (Birds of Europe V, 458) the range of this 
species is over South-East Europe, Africa and India — the Neilgherries and 
Himalayas (Hume, Kough Notes, 270); in winter it has occurred as far south 
as Ceylon and Thatone in Tenasserim (VII. — X. orn JB. Sachs. 1886, p. 2), so 
that its occurrence in Celebes is well within the bounds of possibility. Faber 
collected only in Celebes and Sumatra. 
GENUS HALIASTUR Selby. 
The Brahminy Kite is of medium size, wings long, reaching nearly to the 
tip of the tail (Legge); tail moderate, rounded; tarsus short, about one-eighth 
the length of the wing, upper third feathered, bare part with transverse shields 
in front; toes short, claws somewhat small and not much bent. Devours animal 
food of almost any description. A single, stationary species, occurring from 
India to Australia. Lays 2 eggs. 
d^l9. HALIASTUR INDUS (Bodd.). 
Brahminy Kite. 
This species ranges in great abundance from the Indian countries and 
Ceylon, throughout the East India Archipelago as far as New Guinea and the 
Solomon Islands, to Australia. 
As it extends its range from India eastwards and southwards, it diminishes 
in size and the dark shaft-streaks on the white plumage of the head, neck and 
breast gradually diminish in breadth, until in New Guinea and the neighbouring 
