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Show 398 MR. R. C. BEAVAN ON INDIAN RAPTORES. [JlUie 11, zard (?) or Eagle, which was killed at Umballah on 30th November 1866, by a brother of the late Dr. Scott, with No. 10 shot, on a tamarisk-tree in a neighbouring garden to that occupied by the latter. Its dimensions were as follows :- Spread of -j,.,. Length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, foot un- „""; Gape. Extent. i i -t II O H L. derneatli. 20in. Hfin. 8|in. 2§ in. 4 in. ffin. Va"1- 4 9 in* This bird was peculiar in having pure-white spots at the shoulder of the wing (very visible when flying, according to Mr. Scott). The cere was bright golden yellow, irides brown; the bill greenish at base and dark horny at the tip ; the legs dully coloured yellow, with strong black claws. Its general colour was dark brown, lighter, approaching white, on the tips of the feathers of the upper tertiaries and the ends of the upper tail-coverts, as well as on the tips of the upper secondaries; tarsus wholly feathered to the foot. 47. BUTEO PLUMIPES, Hodg. The Harrier Buzzard. "This, Mr. Blyth now considers, and, I think, correctly, to be a dark variety, or quasi-melanism, of Buteo japonicus" (Gurney in epist. January 1866). 48. POLIORNIS TEESA, Frank. The White-eyed Buzzard. This small Buzzard was tolerably abundant about Umballah, in the station of which I got my first specimen, on 23rd October, 1866, and afterwards procured several others, the dimensions of which, in the flesh, I subjoin :- October 23rd, 1866. Spread of Length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, foot un- Bill ft. Gape. Extent. derneath. 16|in. Il|-in. 7-g-in, 2fin. 2^in. barely 1 in. l^in. 35 in. November 14th, at Lallroo, 8 miles N.W. of Umballah. 6t \H H| 6| 24 21 1TV If 361 ? H 7 | 12i 7| ?J 3 lj 11 39| Of the presumed male the weight was f lb.; of the presumed female 17 oz. The irides are pure pearl-white, legs and cere pale orange-yellow, claws and terminal three-fourths of the beak black. 54. CIRCUS A*ERUGINOSUS, Linn. The Marsh Harrier. Of this I procured an example in the Maunbhoom district, on the 5th March, 1865. I find I have recorded of this bird that I shot it in the act of stealing the eggs of the common Speckled Dove ( Turtur suratensis), from a nest in a sal tree (Shorea robusta). The dimensions in the flesh were as follows :- Length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 20 in. - 10 in. 3\ in. the wing to the end of the longest primary being 16f inches. Feet and tarsus bright yellow, claws black ; the irides also bright yellow. |