250 FALCONID^. 



b'. Primaries not banded below : greater under 



wing-coverts white, like wing-lining. . . . spUogaster ad., p. 252. 

 h. Breast bufty white or light rufous, streaked 

 with blackish bro^mi. 

 c. Primai-ies banded below. 



a". Larger : wing in cj about 19'6 inches, in 



5 21 fasciatus j uv., p. 250. 



h". Smaller : wing 15 inches morphnoides ad., p. 254. 



(C. Primaries imiform below. 



c". Wing in S 17"(3, in 5 l^'^ inches spih/jaster ]uv., p. 252. 



d". Wing in c? 13-7 inches, in $ 16'5 pennatus ad., p. 253. 



c. Breast clove-brown, with narrow black streaks pennatus juv., p. 253. 



1. Nisaetus fasciatus. 



Aquila fasciata, Vieill. Mem. Linn. Soc. Paris, p. 152 (1822) ; Strickl. 



Om. Syn. p. 61 (,1855) ; Degl. et Gerhe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 33 (1867) ; 



Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 8 (1871). 

 Falco bonellii, Temrn. PI. Col. i. pi. 288 (1824) ; Savi, Orn. Tosc. i. 



p. 24 (1827) ; Marm. Mem. Accad. P. Torino, xxxvii. p. 110, pi. i. 



(1840). 

 Aquila intermedia, Boitard, Ois. d'Eur. p. (1825). 

 Aquila bonellii, Less. Man. Orn. i. p. 83 (1828) ; Oould, B. Eur. i. 



pi. 7 (1837) ; Schl. u. Susem. Vog. Eur. Taf. 18 (1839) ; Gray, Gen. 



B. i. p. 14 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. i.'p. 14 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 3 (1857) ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. Taf. 6. figs. 4, 5 (1858) ; Jaub. et 



Barth. Lap. Rich. Orn. p. 10, pi. 4 (1859) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Aquilee, 



p. 9(1862); Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 12 (1869); Heugl. Orn. N.O.- 



Afr. i. p. 49 (1869) ; Shelley, B. Egijpt, p. ^06 (1872). 

 Nisaetus grandia, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. v. p. 230 (1836) ; Jerd. III. Ind. 



Orn. pi. 1 (1847), 

 Nisaetus niveus, Jerd. Madr. Journ. x. pp. 69, 234 (1839). 

 Spizaetus grandis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 301 (1843). 

 Aquila nipalensis, Hodgs. ew Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844). 

 Aquila rubriventer, Hodgs. t. c. p. 81 (1844). 

 Eutolmaetus bonellii, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 174 (1845), et xix. 



p. 335 (1850) ; Hume, Bough Notes, i. p. 189 (1869). 

 Tolmaetus bonellii, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 5 (1846). 

 Nisaetus strenuus, Jerd. III. Ind. Orn. pi. 1 (1847). 

 Aquila wiedii, Brehm, Naum. 1855, pp. 25, 268. 

 Pseudaetus bonellii, Bp. Cat. Ois. Eur. Parzud. p. 1 (1856) ; Loche, 



Expl. Alger. Ois. i. p. 29 (1867) ; Hume, Str. F. i. p. 158 (1873). 

 Aquilastur bonellii, Brehm, Ber. Orn. Vers. Stuttg. 1860, p. 53. 

 Aquilastur wiedii, Brehm, ut supra. 

 Nisaetus bonellii, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 67 (1862) ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, 



p. 411. 



Nestling. Above umber-browu, with whitish margins to the small 

 wing-coverts and upper tail-coverts, broader on the latter, these 

 being slightly mottled with paler brown ; greater wing-coverts and 

 secondaries purplish brown, the latter terminally margined with 

 buffy white, the primaries blackish both above and below, the 

 secondaries whitish below, with dark brown bars ; tail greyish 

 brown, broadly tipped with huffy white, with two distinct cross 

 bands of dark brown, the subterminal one broader ; head and neck 

 brown, with rufous margins, the ear-coverts more rufous ; underneath 



