42. NEOPus. 257 



Foot of Neopus malayensis (reduced). 



1. Neopus malayensis. 



Falco malayensis, Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 117 (1824, e.r Reinw. MS.). 



Aquila malayensis, Viff. Zool. Journ. i. p. 337 (1824) ; Ch-ay, Gen. B. 

 1. p. 14 (1845) ; Bp. Comp. i. p. 14 (1850); Strickl. Orn. Syn. pp.60 

 220 (1855); Schl. Mus. P.-B. AqiiiL-e, p. 11 (1862); id. Fog. Ne- 

 derl. Ind. Valkv. pp. 8, 49, pi. 3. figs. 1, 2 (1866) ; Gray, Handel. 

 i. p. 11 (1869); Schl. Remie Accipitr. p. 117 (1873). 



Aquila malayana, Less. Traite, p. 39 (1831). 



Aquila pemigra, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. v. p. 227 (1836). 



Heteropus perniger, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xii. p. 127 (1843). 



Nisaetus ovivorus, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 157 (1844). 



Ictinaetus perniger, Blyth, Ann. N, II. xiii. p. 114 (1844). 



Neopus perniger, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844). 



Ictinaetus malayensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 7 (1846). 



Neopus malayensis, Horsf. 4'' Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 381 

 (1854); Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 65 (1862) ; Beav. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 396, 

 pi. xxxiv. ; Wall. Ibis, 1868, p.l3 ; Hume, Rough Notes, i. p.l87 ( 1869) ; 

 Wald. Tr. Z. S. viii. p. 34 (1872) ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 411. 



Young. Above brown, all the wing-coverts and the secondaries 

 with bufFy white spots at their tips, minute on the former, larger on 

 the latter and also distinct on the feathers of the lower back ; upper 

 tail-coverts very broadly tipped with white ; primaries black, slightly 

 mottled with white at the base of the inner web, less distinct on the 

 secondaries ; tail-feathers black, the centre ones browner, all crossed 

 with indistinct bands of ashy brown, rather inclining to whitish on 

 the inner web of the outer feathers ; head slightly crested, brown, 

 with ochre-coloured margins to the feathers, reduced to narrow 

 lines on the forehead ; sides of crown, cheeks, and throat huffy 

 ochre, a few feathers below the eye and some narrow streaks on the 

 throat blackish ; rest of the under surface of body rich buify ochre, 

 with margins of dark brown to the feathers, giving a strongly 

 striped appearance, the margins less distinct on the abdomen, thighs, 

 and flanks, which are less striped in consequence ; vent and feathers 

 on the tarsus uniform buify ochre, the under tail-coverts with brown 

 shaft-stripes and mottled with brown on the outer web ; under 

 wing-coverts ochre, uniform with the breast, the lower ones mottled, 

 and the axiUaries margined ^sith dark brown. Total length 27*5 

 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 21-2, tail 12, tarsus 3-1. {Mns. Lugd.) 



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