44. spizAETUs. 273 



broadly tipped with buffy white, and indistinctly barred with darker 

 brown, plainer on the inner web, especially underneath, whore it is 

 ashy white on the primaries and greyish on the secondaries ; lower 

 back and rump pale brown, the upper tail-coverts brownish buff ; 

 tail brown, tipped with bufiy white and crossed with six equidistant 

 bands of darker brown ; head and neck whitish buff, the sides of the 

 latter washed with sandy rufous, and mottled with dark brown in 

 the centres of the feathers; under surface of body buffy white, 

 washed with ptile fawn-colour on the sides of the body and thighs, 

 with a few indistinct spots of the same on the chest ; under wing- 

 coverts white, spotted with dark brown, the spots larger on the greater 

 series ; iris brownish. Total length 24 inches, wing 15-5, taU (not 

 fully grown) 9-5, tarsus 3-7. 



Another young bird, collected by Mr. Wallace, is rather larger in 

 general bulk than the foregoing example, though having the wing 

 of the same length. It is purer white below, with a shade of dark 

 brown on the lower flanks, and a few distinct oval spots of brown 

 on the breast. The centre tail-feather has seven bands of dark 

 brown. 



Adult. Above and below deep chocolate-brown, inclining to 

 blackish on the head and back, the quills and tail blackish, the 

 shafts of the latter brownish, the inner webs of the quills clear 

 ashy ; tail-feathers below ashy M'hite, bromiish towards the tips, 

 the penultimate ones with remains of irregular cross markings ; cere 

 yellowish ; feet pale yellow ; iris bright yellow. Total length 25 

 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 16, tail 11, tarsus 4-1. 



Bed). Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Malacca, reaching northwards into 

 the Eastern Himalayahs and Lower Bengal. 

 a. Pull. St. Sumatra. Purchased. 



h. Juv. sk. Sumatra. Sir S. Raffles [C.]. Type of S. calii/atm. 



c. Ad. sk. Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.J 



(I. Ad. St. Java. Purchased. 



s. Juv. sk. Java. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



/. Juv. sk. Penang. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



e. 



/ 



(/. Skeleton 



10. Spizaetus gxirnejri. 



Aquila gurneyi, Grca/, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 342, pi. 169 ; Wall. Ibis, 



18(i8, p. 13; Gra;/, Ilaml-l. B. i. p. 11 (1869): 

 Spizaetus gurueyi, HM. Miis. F.-B. Astures, p. 14 (1862) ; id. Von 



Nederl. 1ml. pp. 17, 50, pi. 9 (1866) ; Beb. Verh. z.-b. Wien, 1872, 



p. 425 ; Svhl. Bevue Accipitr. p. 60 (1873). 



Adult female. All over blackish brown, the head, sides of face, 

 and throat purer black, the greater wing-coverts and inner secon- 

 daries a httle Hghter brown ; primaries blackish, externally shaded 

 with ashy grey near the base ; tail blackish, shaded on the outer 

 web with ashy grey, very distinct at the base of the centre feathers, 

 which have indications of six or seven not continuous grey bars • 

 under surface of both wings and tail more brown than the upper', 

 the shafts white, and the inner webs whitish ashv for the greater 



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