Birds of Celebes: Falconidae. 
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Measurements. 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Bill 
from cere 
530 
294 
73 
26 
538 
285 
71 
30 
520 
305 
81 
31 
635 
375 
97 
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a. (Sarasin Coll.) O’ ’ ilf ai 
b. (Sarasin Coll.) Q [?] juv- Rurukan, Cel. 20. XI. 94 
SmaU (f (from hegge h 5] 
Large $ adult (from Legge /?• 5) 
Di.trib.«.„. India, Ceylon, Bm-mal., Te„«, 
Ternate, Halmahera (fide Legge h 5, Salvadon h6l, 
V. Roae’nbevg 1. «. In Colebea: - Minahaaea ,,V ’(? sl (apul 
P. & P. Sarasin h 15); S. Peninsula, Loka (P. & P. b )> I 
G. R. Gray, HL. 1869, I, 11;. , 1 1 r, /.+ P TJ Grav as Sal- 
Thongh the locality Snla may very probably be correct, 
vadori has remai-ked, has never shmvm his grounds for this indicatio . 
The remarkable shape of the foot of this Aquiline 
with something very unusual in its is not content with 
“as far as can be observed, entirely by bii hrnnches of 
.be egga and young bi.da wl^h ^--tL?::dT:i;^rtand 
the forest trees, but seizes the ’ ^.„,ihermore, Mr. Bligh 
often examines the contents as it sails la/ y g stomach 
informs me that he once found the best pai 
of one of these Eagles which he ” ^-l^L^XCrU -of-carr^ o^' 
inner claws of this bird seem especially - ‘ f . , q^heir leno-th and straight- 
loose and fragile masses such as the nests of ir ‘ ^ , when it has 
ness also, it may be added, would enable the bird to et fal a ue t h- 
done with it, without dfflculty and risk of entanglemen , - no 
deration, when it is remembered into what a panic o a atm a „ 
animal is thrown at finding itself clung to by an object /tom wh h ,t ues 
vain to free itself. It also occasionally carries off large birds 
rare occurrence; a rat in the stomach is noted byBeavan < > i Xem- 
egg and a snake’s egg by Mr. Wray ,/iP;, “^/ireaff bisect, as 
minck states probably from information of emu ' “rioves and per- 
well as birds and reptiles. In India Jerdon remarks tha^ ,dove^^ 
haps some other birds breed at all times “ ‘ ® alters and varying the 
obtain eggs or nestlings at all seasons, y s o cannot speak from 
elevations, if not, it probably may eat reptiles; but ot 
observation”. . . . .^g of the Malay Archi- 
This Eagle is rare in Celebes an m occurs only in migration, or 
pelago where it has ^een foirnd, and we^susim ^ Wallace in 
as a somewhat frequent straggler. ^ , esaniirles recorded 
any island; Meyer never saw it - one in the Leyden (U) 
from there prior to 1894 were two, both rnnnature 
in tvltrl8“wrd“ple. also young, was obtained by the 
