!}(;(» FAI-CONID^. 



Range. The whole of Central and 8onthern America, excepting the 

 extreme south of the latter continent ; the whole of Africa ; entire 

 Indian peninsula and Cej-lon ; all the Indo-Malayan subregion and 

 Celebes ; Formosa ; Japan. 



mandible lobed ; wing moderate, fourth and fifth quills longest and nearly 

 equal ; tail rather long ; tarsi thick and densely feathered to the toes, the bases 

 of which are also feathered ; toes and claws very strong ; entire upper parts 

 brownish black ; plumage of the back and neck behind white at base ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts with concealed large spots of white ; quills brownish black on 

 their outer surface, with a few transverse bands of a darker shade of the same 

 colour, and with a large space on their inner webs white ; under surface of quills 

 white, with about vhree transverse bands of black; entire underparts white; 

 flanks, under tail-coverts, and tibial plumes externally with large spots of 

 brownish black, and narrowly tipped with white, on its under surface ashy white, 

 with a few transverse bands of black ; under wing-cuverts white, with large spots 

 of black ; tarsi white ; cere and toes yellow ; bill dark bluish brown ; axillary 

 feathers brownish black, the black spots on the imder wing-coverts unitedly form 

 a large space of that colour on the under surface of the wings. Total length 

 about 22 inches, wing 14, tail 9^, tarsus 2| ; bill from corner of mouth to tip of 

 upper mandible H inch. {Cassin, I.e.) 



Hub. Ogobai river, Gaboon. 



My belief is that, could specimens be compared, this supposed species would 

 very probably 1 urn out to be the crested Aquila uuhlbcrgii in the plumage figuretl 

 by Mr, Gurn(y i^Tr Z. S. iv. pi. 77. fig. 2). 



Spizaetus andamanensis. 



Spizaetus andamanensis, Tytler, Pr. A. S. B. 1865, p. 112; Beav. Piin, 

 1867, p. 315 ; Hume, Eovgh Notes, i. p. 203 (1869) ; Ball, Str. F. i. p. 52 

 (1873). 



Adult male. Head with the traces of a crest, and of a light brown colour, 

 striped with dark brown ; each feather is, for the basal three fourths, white, and 

 one fourth from the tip light brown, with a longitudinal dark brown stripe in 

 the centre, which gives an appearance of light brown to the head ; but on the 

 feathers being in the slightest ruflled the head assumes an albescent appearance. 

 Back, wings, and tail brown ; but, from the greater portion of the base of each 

 feather being white or light brown, the upper surface of the bird assumes a 

 mottled appearance of brown and white, the brown being darkest in the centre 

 of the back, quill-feathers, and tail. The greatest portion of the inner web of 

 the quill-feathers is white, which gives a white appearance to the under surface 

 of the wing, which is most stril'.ing when the bird is flying. The primaries are 

 dark towards their points ; but all the wing-feathers are more or less conspicu- 

 ously banded with four or five dark brown bars. This is also the case with the 

 feathers of the tail. All the under surface is white, streaked with longitudinal 

 brown marks on the breast, flanks, and centre of abdomen. Some of the under 

 wing-coverts have three or four dark brown bands ; and immediately under the 

 bend the feathers of the wing are streaked with rufous; this is also the case with 

 the thighs and some of the lower tail-coverts and white feathers of the densely 

 feathered tarsus. The toes are yellowish, with black claws ; cere greenish slaty ; 

 bill dark blackish slaty ; irides dark reddish brown. The two outermost lateral 

 tail-feathers, when ob.served from beneath, have a very albescent appearance, 

 with dark dots near the tips, and traces of spots of the same colour going to- 

 wards the base. Total length 24 inches, bill along curve from edge of cere 

 1-37, wing 1375, tail 10-15, tarsus 3-65. {TytJer, in Hume's' Bovgh Notes,' 



I.e.) 



Adult female. Total length 25-25 inches, wing 14-25, tail 10-25, tarsus 3-6. 

 ( Ti/flcr.) 



Hall. Andaman Islands. 



