280 



FALCOSrO^. 



the spots smaller ou ihc under tail-coverts and thighs, the latter 

 more strongly tinged with rufous ; under wing-coverts white, sparsely 

 spotted with black, the axillaries broadly barred ; quills and tail 

 brown, with widely separated bars of black, five in number on the 

 latter, more distinct below, the under surface being white, shading 

 into whitish ashy towards the tip ; cere yellow ; bill horn-brown, 

 yellow at base ; feet yellow, claws blackish. Total length 21-5 inches, 

 culmen 1-8, wing 12-15, tail 9-7, tarsus 2-9. (Mms. Liigd.). 

 Hah. The same as that of the genus. 



49. CIRCAETUS. 

 Circaetus, Vieill. Analyse, p. 23 (181G) .... 



Type. 

 C. gallic tia. 



Head of Circacins gaUicus (reduced). 



Range. The whole of Africa, Southern and Central Europe, the 

 Indian peninsula, Timor, and Flores. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Chest white, streaked with brown gaUicus ad., p. 280. 



b. Chest uniform brown or greyish. 



a'. Abdomen quite white citieretcs ad., p. 282. 



b'. Abdomen white, barred across with 

 brown. 



a". Larger ; four bands on tail bcatidoutmi ad., p. 284. 



b". SmaUer; three bands ou tail fasciolatus ad., p. 285. 



c'. Abdomen greyish brown, with a few 



white bands on thighs cmerascens ad., p. 285. 



<F. Abdomen earthy brown. 



c". Tail black, with three or four narrow 



brown cross bands cinereus imm., p. 282. 



d". Tail black, with a broad central 

 band of whity brown, as broad as 

 the subterminal black band cinerascc7is imm., p. 285. 



c. Chest orange tawny cinereus juv., p. 282. 



1. Circaetus gallicus. 



Le Jean-le-Blanc, Uriss. Oin. i. p. 44.T (1770); Buff. Fl. Enl. i. 

 pi. 413. 



