44. spizAETUs. 267 



slightly tipped with whitish, externally shaded with clear ashy grey, 

 inclining to whitish near outer base of primaries ; all the quills with 

 a broad subterminal band of greenish black, most of the quills ex- 

 hibiting remains of a second dark brown bar near the base ; inner- 

 most secondaries with three distinct bands of dark brown ; upper 

 tail-coverts greenish black, tipped and spotted with white ; tail 

 black, tipped with pale brown and crossed with two broad bands of 

 ashy grey, with remains of a third basal one on the outermost fea- 

 thers ; crown and occipital crest blackish brown, with faint indica- 

 tions of pale brown tips to the feathers ; sides of face and of neck 

 earthy brown ; the cheeks and throat blackish brown ; under surface 

 of body yellowish buff, broadly banded with black, these bands being 

 so thick on the chest as to render it almost entirely black, the buff 

 being confined to the base of the feathers ; under tail-coverts barred 

 -nath black and white ; thighs black, thickly spotted and barred with 

 dull white ; under wing-coverts deep chestnut, slightly streaked 

 down the centre with black, the median ones broadly tipped with 

 black, the lower ones uniform blackish, with white tips and bases to 

 the feathers ; bill horn-colour, yellow at base and gape ; feet pale 

 yellow ; iris j^ellow. Total length 39 inches, culmen 2-8, wing 22-2, 

 tail 16, tarsus 4-1. 



Uab. South and West Africa. 



a. S juv. St. South Africa. S.-African Museum. 



b. $ ad. St. South Africa. S.-African Museum. 

 6 juv. St. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



c 



5. Spizaetus nipalensis. 



Nisaetus nipalensis, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. v. p. 229, pi. 7 (1836). 



Nisaetus pulcher, Hoch/s. J. A. S. B. vi. p. 361 (1837). 



Nisaetus pallidus, Hodgs. I. s. c. (1837). 



Spizaetus grandis, G)-ag, Cat. Accipitr. 1844, p. 8. 



Spizaetus pulcher. Gray, t. c. p. 8 (1844). 



Spizaetus nipalensis, Grm/, t. c. p. 8 (1844) ; Bhjth, J. A. S. B. xix. 



p. 333 (1850) ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 69 (1855) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 13 (1869) ; Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 210 (1869) ; Sivinh. P. 



Z. .S. 1871, p. 339. 

 Spizaetus cirrhatus, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. 1848, p. 16. 

 Spizaetus orientalis, Tetmn. &• Schl. F. J. Aves, pi. 3 ( 1850) ; Bp. Cottsv. 



i. p. 29 (1850). ^ 



Limnaetus nipalensis, Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 73 (1862) ; Hoklsw. P. Z. S. 



1872, p. 411. 



Nestling. Clothed with white down ; the feathers deep brown, 

 broadly margined with ochraceous buff, especially on the head, which 

 is much crested ; the feathers of the crown deep ochraceous, with a 

 broad blackish subterminal band ; underneath huffy white, all the 

 feathers distinctly streaked with rufous brown. 



Younc/. Above brown, the feathers lighter at the base and whitish 

 on the margins ; the median and greater wing-coverts whity brown, 

 broadly tipped with white and darker brown in the centre of the 

 feathers ; quills deep purplish brown, broadly tipped with whitish, 



