270 FALC0NID.1;. 



rich brown, barred .across with blackish brown; the secondaries 

 tipped with buffy white, the innermost rather paler brown than the 

 back, all the bars showing- plainly below, where the inner lining of 

 the wing is white at base, shading into ashy white towards the tip ; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform brown, a little 

 paler than the back ; taU light brown, with three bauds of dark 

 brown, then an interspace of 1'7 inch, and finally a broad subter- 

 minal band 1-5 inch in exteut ; sides of face and of neck light brown, 

 with central streaks of black ; throat white, with a broad black 

 central streak, and bordered on each side with a distinct moustachial 

 streak ; under surface of body brown, slightly inclining to rufous on 

 the chest, to the feathers of which the white bases impart a some- 

 what streaked ajjpearance ; the thighs decidedly paler brown ; under 

 wing-coverts rufous brown, with dark shaft-stripes, the outermost 

 blackish brown, with pale fulvous margins ; the lower series white, 

 centred or barred with blackish brown ; cere pale yellow ; feet yel- 

 low ; iris yellow. Total length 26-5 inches, culmen (broken) about 

 1-75, wing 16, tail 11, tarsus 3-9. 



Adult female. Very similar to the foregoing, but not so uniform 

 below ; tail with four bands, the penultimate interspace broader 

 than the subterminal band ; the crest 3-7 inches long, black in 

 colour, but showing very slight traces of pale margins of brown, the 

 smallest plumes very distinctly bordered with buffy white. Total 

 length 32 inches, wing 17'8, tail 12*75, tarsus 4-1. 



Hah. Central and Southern India and Ceylon. 



Hon. East-India Co. [P.]. 



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

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

 J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. 

 Dr. Jerdon [P.]. 

 Dr. Jerdon [P.]. 

 E. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.]. 

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



7. Spizaetus lanceolatus. 



Spizaetus lanceolatus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 29 (18-50) ; Wall. Ibis, 18G8, 



p. 13 ; Grmj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 13 (1869). 

 Spizaetus fasciolatus, Temm. ^- Schl. Faun. Jap. p. 8 (1850). 

 Spizaetus cirrhatus, Schl. Vo(/. Nederl. Ind. Valkv. pi. 7. figs. 2, 3 



(1866) ; id. Rev. Accipitr. p. 52 (1873, pt). 

 Limnaetus lanceolatus, Wald. Tr. Z. >S. viii. p. 34 (1872), 



Adult female. Above deep sepia-brown, the head blackish ; nape 

 and hind neck pale rufous-brown, with median centres of dark 

 brown ; wings brown, the lesser wing-coverts a little blacker ; pri- 

 maries also rather darker brown, barred with blackish brown, more 

 distinctly below, where the inner lining of the wing is ashy whitish, 

 the bars nearly or quite obsolete on the secondaries, all the qiiills 

 very narrowly margined with white at the tips ; upper tail- coverts 



