254 FAlCONIDiK. " 



upper tail-coverts dull fawn -brown, .shading into bufiy white on their 

 margins and tips ; tail dull sepia-brown, slightly shaded with ashy, 

 and tipped Avith dull white, crossed witli four or five indistinct bars 

 of darker brown, the feathers inclining to dark brown towards the 

 tips, but not forming a distinct subterminal band ; head and neck 

 fawn-colour, with lanceolate central streaks of dark brown, the 

 cheeks streaked distinctly with blacldsh ; frontal plumes whitish ; 

 under surface of body bufiy white, the throat and chest inclining to 

 dull fawn-colour, the throat broadly streaked with black down the 

 centre, the chest also streaked with dark brown, becoming narrower 

 on the breast, and disappearing on the abdomen, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts white, scarcely streaked with dark 

 brown shaft-lines, the greater ones with large blackish spots ; cere 

 and gape bright wax-yellow ; bill bluish black, pale blue at base ; 

 feet pale wax-yellow ; iris pale brown. Total length 24 inches, cul- 

 men 1-7, wing 16-5, tail 10, tarsus 2-8. 



Adult male. Smaller than the female. Total length 19 inches, 

 wing 13-7, tail 8, tarsus 2-4. 



Yoioig. Differs from the adult in the colour of its under surface, 

 which is entirely duU brown, with distinct black shaft-lines, the 

 thighs and under tail-coverts a little more sandy, the tarsal feathers 

 bufiy white ; upper surface purplish brown, the scapulars and wing- 

 coverts lighter than the back and broadly edged with whitish, the 

 upper tail-coverts almost entirely whitish ; uppermost scapulars 

 white, forming a larger patch than in the adult ; head dull fawn, 

 not so rufous as in the old bird, distinctly streaked with black, the 

 cheeks and throat strongly inclining to dark brown ; quills and tail 

 much as in the adult. 



Hah. Southern and North-eastern Africa, all the countries bor- 

 dering the Mediterranean, South-eastern Europe, entire Indian 

 peninsula and Ceylon. 



J. Gould, Esq. 



Purchased. 



Purchased. 



W. B. D. Tumbull, Esq. [P.]. 



South- African Museum. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



Zoological Society. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



4. Nisaetus morphnoides. 



Aquila moi-phnoides, Gmild, P. Z. S. 1840, p. 161 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 14 (1845) ; Gould, B. Austr. i. pi. 2 (1848) ; Bp. C'onsp. i. p. 14 



(1850) ; Strtckl. Orn. Syn. p. 62 (1855) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 12 



(1869). 

 Butaetus morphnoides, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 546 (1845). 

 Hieraetus cristatus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 4 (1846). 

 Hieraetus morphnoides, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 243 ; Go7tld, Handb. B. 



Austr. i. p. 11 (1865). 

 AiMt. Face, crown of the head, and throat blackish brown, tinged 



