Identifier: royalnaturalhist47lyde (find matches)
Title: The royal natural history
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Frostick, W. B., former owner. DSI Brooks, W. T., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Natural history
Publisher: London and New York : Frederick Warne & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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with darker brown; andthe tail-feathers are likewise ashy brown, with huffish white tips, and crossed witheleven dark brown bars. With the exception of a few dark brown spots on thechest and under wing-coverts, the whole of the under-parts are uniform huffishwhite. In the adult the o-cneral colour becomes dark brown above, the head beini;dark brown, with narrow pale margins to the feathers; the tail has but six bars;and the front of the neck and chest are dark brown, the remainder of the under 2l8 DIURNAL BIRDS OF PREY. surface being white, with some dark spots. All the Oriental species are smaller,some having the inferior portion of the under surface marked with dark barrings.The following account of the habits of the marsh crested eagle (aS. livmaetus),which ranges from India to Java, is given by Capt. Feilden, who writes from Pegu.He observes that this eagle seems to be a very common bird about Thyetmyo;every ravine in the spurs of the Arracan Mountains seems to contain one or more
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WARLIKE CRESTED EAGLE (h liat. size) pairs, as well as every wooded stream in the lower ground. Their wild screaming(whistle) is almost always to be heard long before the bird is seen, as it sits insome large tree rising above the rest of the jungle, or wheels in circles far overhead ;it is one of the wildest and wariest of birds. One that I took from the nest nearlytwo years ago is still as wild as ever, and constantly rutHes up the feathers of itshead till they look almost like the crest of a bloodsucker, leaving the top of thehead almost bare. It has also a habit of throwing back the head, apparentlylooking for a hole in the top of its cage, and bending backwards till it frequently HA WK-EA GLES. 219 falls over. These birds, as far as I know, feed on mynas, rats, and frogs. I havetaken a young bird from the nest in the middle of May, and seen several youngbirds about the end of that month. They build the usual hawk-eagles nest in thefork of the largest and most inaccessible tree th

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