78 



Size similar ; length 9 32 in. ; wing 20.5 in. ; 

 above paler ; throat and chest ashy brown, the 

 throat varied with white bases to the feathers; 

 below white broadly banded with ashy brown. 



212. ('ircactus heaudouinii Verr. et Des Murs, Ibis, Portuguese 

 1862, p. 212. [Bissao, Poring. Guinea, types Guinea ; 



in Norw. & Brit. Mus.] Senegambia. 



Beaudouin's Snake-Eagle. 



Smaller ; length ad. 25 in. ; wing 14.6 in. ; 

 above blackish, bro^vner on head, with j^ale 

 whitish margins to all the feathers, including 

 the wing quills, which are barred with 

 blackish, the secondaries also with a broad 

 subterminal band ; tail ashy brown, ti^Dped 

 with white, and with 4 black bands ; throat 

 and chest fulvous brown ; below white, barred 

 with dark brown. 



213. ttrc(7^7/?/.s/asa'o?a/?f.s Gray, Cat. Acciptr. B.M., Natal, 

 p. 18 (1848) {nom. nud.) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1861, 



p. 130. [Natal] 

 Banded Snake-Eagle. 



214. 



Size similar, wing^ 16.1,(:^ 15 in. ; above grey ; 

 tail whitish, shaded and tipped with pale 

 brown, and with broad blackish subterminal 

 band and 2 narrower bands near base ; below 

 ashy brown, shaded with grey, the abdomen 

 and thighs barred with white. 

 Circaetus cinerascens Midi., Naum. 1851, heft 

 iv., p. 27. [Sennar, Egypt. Sudan.] 

 Cinereous Snake-Eagle. 



Tropical 

 Africa, 

 E. to W. 



Length 25.60 ; wing 16.20 ; tail 9.90 ; throat 

 and chest with black shaft stripes. [Not seen.] 

 215. Circaetus rufidus Reichenow, Orn. M.B., xiii., " German 

 pp. 179-80 (1905). [Songea, German E. Afr.] E. Africa. 



Gen. LVII. PITHECOPHAGA Ogilvie Grant (1896). 



Bill very deeji and much compressed, ridge of cidmen 

 much curved ; nostrils a vertical slit ; loi'es and 

 cheeks covered with bristles only ; head with a 

 crest of long lanceolate feathers ; feet very powerful ; 

 tarsi mostly naked, with a row of large scutes down 

 front ; wings short and rounded ; tail very long. 



