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Gen. LIV. DRYOTRIORCHIS Shelley (1874) 



Tarsus bare on lower portion ; nostrils perpendi- 

 cular ovals ; head with a short crest of lanceolate 

 feathers ; wings short. 



Length ad. 22.5 ; wing 11.9 in. ; above dark 

 browai ; nape and scapulars with white 

 bases to the feathers ; quills browai, barred 

 with darker brown, the inner webs white ; 

 tail with 6 blackish bands ; below white ; 

 fawn colour on throat and chest, the former 

 with a black central stripe ; chest and breast 

 with black spot on tip of each feather, becom- 

 ing bars on flanks and thighs ; vent and under 

 tail-coverts with spots of rufous. 

 207. Dryotriorchis sjjectabilis sjiectabilis (Schl.), W. Africa 



Neder. Tijdschr. Dierk., i., p. 131, pi. 6 (1863). (Gold Coast) 

 [St. George Elmina, Gold Coast, type in 

 Leyd. Mus.] 

 Beautiful Wood-Hawk. 



Wing (J 11.5 in. ; chest uniform creamy 

 white, without the large black spots (except 

 in immature birds). 

 207a. Dryotriorchis spectabilis batesi Sharpe, Ibis, Cameroon, 

 1904, pp. 601-2. [EfiUen, Cameroon, ty^Je in Gaboon, 

 in Brit. Mus.] Congo 



Bates's Wood-Hawk. Region, 



Gen. LV. EUTRIORCHLS Sharpe (1875). 



Wings remarkably short, not extending much 

 beyond base of tail ; tail elongated ; head with a 

 short crest. 



208. 



Above brown, tail with about 8 blackish bars ; 

 below white narrowly banded with black ; 

 throat and chest ashy. 



Eutriorchis astur Sharpe, P.Z.S., 1875, p. 73, 

 pi. xiii. [S. Madagascar, type in Brit. Mus.] 

 Madagascar Serpent -Eagle. 



Madagascar. 



Gen. LVI. CIRCAETUS Vieill. (1816). 



Tarsus reticulated ; head with a short crest as in 

 Dryotriorchis ; wings long. 



