ACCIPITRES. 
FALCONIELE. 
AQUILINAh 
Genus HALIASTTTR. 
Bill stout, rather lengthened, the direction of the cere straight, the culmen descending from 
its edge; festoon prominent. Nostrils oval and oblique, exposed. Eyelid furnished with short 
lashes. Wings long, reaching nearly to the tip of the tail, the 4th quill the longest. Tail 
short and broad at base, rounded at the tip. Tarsus short, feathered in front slightly below the 
knee, moderately stout, protected in front by rectangular transverse scales, behind with broad 
pentagonal scute. Toes rather short, the outer considerably longer than the inner, the whole 
covered with transverse scales. Claws shortish, moderately curved and trenchant beneath. 
HALIASTUR INDUS. 
(THE BRAHMIN Y KITE.) 
Falco indus, Bodd. Tabl. PI. Enl. 25 (1783). 
Falco pondicerianus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 265 (1788). 
Haliaetus ponticerianus, Cuv. Regne An. i. p. 316 (1817). 
Milvus pondicerianus, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. p. 72 (1839). 
Hcdiastur indus , Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 18 (1845) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 31 , Kelaart, 
Prodromus, Cat. p. 114 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 101 ; Horsf. 
and Moore, Cat. B. Mus.E. I. Co. i. p. 57 (1854); Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 101 ; Hume, 
Rough Notes, ii. p. 316 (1870); IToldsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 414; Hume, Nests and 
Eggs, p. 51 (1873); Sharpe, Cat. Birds, i. p. 313 (1874); Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 10, et 
1875, p. 279. 
Haliaetus indus, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Aquilce, p. 19 (1862). 
L'Aigle de Pondichery, Briss. Orn. i. p. 450, pi. 35 (1760). 
Aigle des Grandes Indes, Buff. PI. Enl. i. pi. 416 (1770). 
Shiva's Kite, Kelaart, Prodromus ; Pondicherry Eagle, Lath. ; Maroon-hacked Kite, Jerdon, 
B. of Ind. 
Bahmani-chil, Hind. ; Pu-Mubarik, Mussulmen ; Sunker-chil, lit. Shiva s Kite , Dliobia- 
chil, lit. “ Washerman’s Kite,” Beng. ; Khemankari, Sanscrit ; Patta ookab, Sindh ; 
Garud-alawa, Tel.; Shemberrid, Yerklees (apud Jerdon). Lang-bondol, Sumatra; 
Ulung, Java (Horsf. & Moore, Cat.). 
Pajaliya, Sinhalese ; ChemPrandu, Tam.; Brimalgumoitu, Portuguese in Ceylon ( apud Layard). 
Adult male. Length to front of cere 18'0 to 18-5 inches ; culmen from cere IT ; wing 14-5 to 15-0 ; tail 8'0 to 05 ; 
tarsus 2-0 to 2-25 ; micl toe 1 * 2 , claw (straight) 07 ; height of bill at cere 0-5. 
Adult female. Slightly larger only. Length to front of cere about 1O0 inches ; culmen from cere 1'2 ; wing 15-0 to 15-3. 
Iris brown and mottled in some with yellow; cere yellowish; bill bluish horn, palest at the base beneath; legs and 
feet greenish yellow. 
