50. spiioENis. 291 



Adult male. Head largely crested, jet-black with white bases to 

 the feathers ; upper surface of body brown, the wing-coverts with a 

 few minute spots of white on the margins of the feathers ; quills 

 black, the primary coverts and secondaries narrowly tipped with 

 white, the primaries somewhat shaded with ashy grey externally 

 and crossed with two brown bands, one broad and very distinct, the 

 other basal and nearly obsolete, these bars less distinct above on the 

 secondaries, but rather plainer below ; upper tail-coverts and tail 

 blackish brown, slightly tipped with whitish, the latter crossed with 

 a broad median band of pale ashy brown, with indications of a 

 second basal one only visible below ; sides of head and throat 

 blackish, the cheeks somewhat shaded with ashy grey ; remainder 

 of under surface of body brown, the chest uniform, the breast with 

 distinct oval spots of white on both webs, more numerous on the 

 thighs and inclining to bars on the flanks and under tail-covcrts ; 

 under wing-coverts paler brown, thickly varied with oval spots of 

 white, larger and further apart on the axillaries and greater coverts ; 

 cere yeUow ; bill black, horn-coloured at tip ; feet orange-yellow ; 

 iris yellow. Total length 24-5 inches, culmen 1-9, wing 16, tail 

 10, tarsus 3'4. 



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

 26 inches, wing 16-5, tail 10-5, tarsus 3-75. 



Hah. Java, Sumatra, and Malacca. 



a, b. S 2 ad. sk. E. Java. A. R. ^Yallace, Esq. [P. 



c. 2 ad. sk. E. Java. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [P. 



d. S juv. st. Java. Pm-chased. 



e. 5 ad. St. Java. Hon. East-India Co. [P.], 

 /. Skeleton. Purchased. 



Subsp. a. Spilornis elgini. 



Haematomis spilogaster, Blyth, Ibis, 18GG, p. 343. 



Haematornis elgiui, Tytler, J. A. S. B. xxxii. p. 87 (1863) : Blyth, 



Ibis, 1803, p. 118; Beav. Ibis, 1867, p. 314. 

 Spilornis bacha, Gumei/, Ibis, 1867, p. 466; Hume, Rough Notes, i, 



p. 230 (1869) ; Jerd. Ibis, 1871, p. 335 ; Ball, Str. F. i. p. 52 (1873) : 



Hume, t. c. p. .306 (1873). 

 Spilornis elgini, Beav. Ibis, 1867, p. 314; Walden, Ibis, 1873, p. 299. 



Differs in no respect from S. bacha of Java, excepting that it is 

 very much blacker, and the white spots are therefore very distinct 

 indeed. Total length 22-5 inches, wing 15-6, tail 10-2, tarsus 3-6, 

 (J/ws. Walden.) 



a. Skeleton. Zoological Society. 



4. SpUornis rufipectus. 



Spilornis rufipectus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 222; id. B. of Asia, 



part xii. (1860); JT'all. Ibis, 1868, p. 16; Walden, Tr. Z. S. viii. 



p. 35 (1871). 

 Circaetus bacha celebensjs, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Buteones, p. 27 (1862). 

 Circaetus rufipectus, Schl. Vog. Kederl. Ind. Valkv. pp. 37, 72, pi. 23. 



figs. 1-3 (1866) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 15 (1869) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. 



Revue Accipitr. p. 114 (1873). 



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