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Borneo 

 (loAv countrj'-, 

 Sarawak to 

 Sandakan). 



Nias I. (W, 

 Sumatra) ; 

 Biinguran 

 (N.W. of 

 Borneo).* 



brown ; primaries below witli the white 

 snbterminal band about 3 in. wide ; below 

 tawny wltn white spots. 

 2171, SpUornis cheela i^ciUidiis Walden, Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 363. [Sarawak.'] 

 Bornean Serpent -Eagle. 



Smaller and mnch paler (especially on wing- 

 coverts) than *S^. c. 2^(ittidus ; tail shorter and 

 light band narrower ; wing (Nias T.) ad. 11 .0- 

 12 in. ; tail 7.5 in. ; (Bnngnran I.) wing ■? 12 

 in, ; chest uniform (pale ashv brown in Bun- 

 guian I. birds and throat grey) ; head and 

 bands on wings and tail black not brownish 

 as in S. c. minimus. 

 217ui. Siyilornis cheela salvaclorii Berl., Nov. Zool., ii., 

 p. 73 (1895). [Nias Is., co-type in Tring 

 Mus ] 

 Salvadori 's Serpent -Eagle. 



Larger; winged 14.25 in. ; similar to last form, 

 but very pale below ; much paler than *S'. c. 

 j)allidus of Borneo. 

 217n. Spilornis cheela suh^-p . "^ [r^r^ Triomate, Yaye- 

 yema, S. Loo Choo Is., June 16 and 19, in coll. 

 Tring Mus.] {=S. pallidus Ogawa, Annot. 

 Zool. Japon., v. 4, p. 213, 1905.] 



Very small and pale form compared with S. 

 cheela cheela, %ving ,^ 11.50 ; $ 11.75 ; head 

 and crest (shorter) blackish brown instead of 

 black ; tail with the terminal and median 

 bands dusky brown instead of black, the 

 su.bterminal and basal bands light brown ; 

 throat and chest pale fulvous brown Avithout 

 vermiculations ; bands on primaries beloAv 

 as well as tips dusky brown instead of black. 

 217o. Spilornis cheela minimus Hume, Stray Feath., Nicobar 

 i., p. 464 (1875). [Kamorta, Nicobar Is., tyj^e Islands 

 in Br. Mus.] (Kamorta, 



Nicobar Serpent -Eagle. Trinkut, 



Katchal, 

 Little 

 Nicobar). 



* I haveunited the Bunguran T. birds (Tring Mus,) with salihrtdorii as they 

 agree so well in size, aUJiough a little paler, and are certainly not pallidui. 

 There is no connecting link between these and the Nias I, birds, however. 



Loo Choo Is, 

 S. of Japan, 



