282 palcoi^idj:. 



like bristles ; the hinder part of the ear-coverts and cheeks brown, 

 like the sides of the neck ; under surface of body white, the throat 

 narrowly streaked with brown with a distinct central shaft-stripe of 

 black ; the flanks barred with brown at wide intervals, these bars 

 disappearing on the thighs and under tail-coverts, which are almost 

 entirely white ; under wing-coverts and asillaries white, with irre- 

 gularly defined spots or bars of brown ; quills black, the secondaries 

 browner, especially the inner oucs, which are pale brown like the 

 greater wing-coverts, the outer ones glossed with purplish and nar- 

 rowly tipped with white ; inner lining of quills white, excepting the 

 tips and the inner margin of primaries, which are deep brown ; 

 secondaries barred with dark brown, the subterrainal band very 

 broad; some of the upper tail-coverts notched externally and tipped 

 with white ; tail brown, plaii Jy tipped with white and crossed with 

 three bars of blackish brown ; cere whitish, tinged in places with 

 bluish grey ; biU pale greyish blue at base, blackish horny at tip ; 

 feet pale earthy greyish iDrown ; iris bright orange-yellow. Total 

 length 26 inches, culmen 2"1.5, wing 19-65, tail 11*5, tarsus 3'7. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but larger. Total length 31 

 inches, wing 21-3, tail 12-5, tarsus 4. 



Hah. All the countries bordering the Mediterranean, extending 

 into south-eastern and, more rarely, into Central Europe. The whole 

 of the Indian peninsula, Timor, Flores. 



Baron Laugier de Chartrouse. 



Purchased. 



L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



Hen- Esler [C.]. 



Canon Tristram [C.]. 



J. R. Eeeves, Esq. [P.]. 



Captain J. Haves Llovd [P.]. 



Dr. Jerdon [P^]. 



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



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. " 



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2. Circaetus ciaeretis. 



Circaetus cinereus, Vieill. N. Diet, xxiii. p. 445 (1818) ; id. et Oud. 



Gal. Oh. pi. 12 (182o) ; Less. Traite, p. 48 (1831) ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 16 (1845) ; Biy. Comp. i. p. 16 (1850) ; Sold. Mus. P.-B. Bu- 



teones, p. 25 (1862) ; Bocaqe, Jurn. Lisb. ii. p. .39 (1868) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 14 (1869) ; ' Heuf/l. Oni. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 85 (1869) ; 



Finsch u. Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 54 (1870). 

 Circaetus pectoralis, Smith, S. Afr. Q. Jouni. i. p. 109 (1830) ; Strickl. 



Orn. Syn. p. 47 (1855) ; Gto-ney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 10 



(1872). 

 Circaetus thoracicus, Less. Traite, p. 48 (1831) ; G-ray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 16 (1845). 

 Falco funereus, Run). N. W. Voy. p. 35, pi. 14 (1835). 

 Falco thoracicus. Cur. ; Pticher. Rev. et May. de Zool. 1850, p. 0. 

 Circaetus thoracicus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 16 (1850); Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



pp. 6, 269 (1857) ; Grill, Zool. Antechi. p. 60 (1858) ; Verr. et Des 



Murs, Urn, 1862, p. 209; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 15 (1867) ; Gray, 



