274 FALCONID^. 



part of their extent from the base upwards. Total length 30 inches, 

 culmen 2-35, wing 21, tail 13-5, tarsus 3-6. (Mus. Lufjd.) 



Adult male. Similar to the female, but smaller. Total length 

 24 iiK-hes, wing 19-7, tail 13-7, tarsus 3-1. 



Young female (type of species). Above light brown, the intersca- 

 pulary region darker, and having dull rufous tips to the feathers ; 

 wing-coverts and scapulars pale fulvous at the tips, some of the least 

 ones margined with dull rufous ; some of the median and all the 

 greater wing-coverts blackish brown, with broad, irregular bars of 

 ashy grey; quills blackish brown, narrowlj' tipped with fulvous, 

 and irregularly mottled and shaded with silvery grey, the inner- 

 most secondaries dark brown, with grey shading only near the base ; 

 lower surface of wing greyish, the primaries gradually blackish 

 towards tips, and ii-regularly mottled on the inner web, the secon- 

 daries with distinct dark brown cross bands ; lower back and rump 

 pale brown, the upper tail-coverts broadly margined with fulvous ; 

 tail dark brown, with indications of five or six blackish brown 

 bands, the interspaces more or less inclining to silvery grey, very 

 distinct on the centre feathers ; head and neck all round diiU tawny 

 rufous, the feathers of the crown and nape slightly tipped with 

 fulvous ; under surface of body dull fawn-colour, deeper and more 

 tawny on the breast, and inclining to fulvous on the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts deep fawn-colour, like the 

 breast ; cere and bill bluish white, the tip of the latter darker ; feet 

 white ; iris yellowish olive. 



Hah. Batchian, GUolo, Ternate, Aru Islands, Waigiou, New 



Guinea. 



a. 5 imm. sk. Waigiou. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



Tvpe of species. 



b. 2juv.sk. G\\o\<j {VoH Rosenberg), Leiden Museum [P.]. 



45. LOPHOAETUS. „ 



Type. 



Morphiuis, Kunp, Mus. Senckenb. iii. p. 259 (1845) . . L. occipitalis. 

 Lophoaetus, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 165 L. occipitalis. 



Head of Lophoaetus occipitalis (reduced). 

 Range. The whole of Africa. 



1. Lophoaetus occipitalis. 

 Black Eagle, Bruce, Truv. Abyss, v. App. p. 159, pi. 82 (17rO). 

 Le Huppaid, Lcvaill. Ois. d'Afr. i. p. 8, pi. 2 (1799) : Sunuci: Ertt. 

 om Lvvaill. p. 50 (1858). 



