292 FALCOXIDJS. 



Adult male. Head crested, black ; upper surface of body purplish 

 brown, the upper tail-coverts sKghtly tipped with white ; quills 

 brown, tipped with white, with a broad subterminal band of purplish 

 brown, the secondaries also margined externally with purplish brown, 

 the primaries banded with dark brown below, secondaries brown, 

 more thickly spotted with white towards the base of the inner web ; 

 tail brown, tipped with white and crossed with three bands of 

 purplish brown, the two basal ones being indistinct and almost 

 merged together, the subterminal one nearly black, and the inter- 

 space before it inclining to whity brown; hinder neck brown, 

 darker in the centre of the feathers, which are tipped with rufous, 

 as are also some of the under feathers of the crest ; sides of face and 

 throat bluish ash-colour, the latter inclining to blackish, especially 

 on the lower margin ; chest uniform dull rufous ; rest of under 

 surface rufous brown, with large spots and bars of white on each 

 web, producing a barred appearance ; thighs white, numerously 

 barred with ashy brown, the under tail-coverts also, but less niune- 

 rously, barred ; under wing-coverts rufous brown, marked like the 

 belly with white spots, the small coverts on the edge of the wing 

 for the most part white ; cere yellow ; bill black ; feet yellow ; iris 

 yellow. Total length 17-6 inches, culmen 1-45, wing 13-3, tail 9-5, 

 tarsus 3'1, middle toe 1"5. 



Hab. Celebes. 



a. Ad. sk. Macassar, Celebes. J. Gould, Esq. [P.]. Type of species. 



b, c. Ad. St. Macassar, Celebes. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.^ . 



d. 2 ad. sk. Macassar, Celebes. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.^ . 



e. $ juv. sk. Macassar, Celebes. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



5. Spiloruis sulaensis. 



Circaetus sulaensis, Schl Voq. Kederl. Ind. pp. 38, 72, pi. 23. figs. 4-6 



(1866) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 15 (1869). 

 Spilornis sulaensis, Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 16. 

 Circaetus ruilpectus sulaensis, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Bevtte Accipitr. p. 114 



(1873). 



Young. Above brown, with rufous margins to the feathers, the 

 bases of which are fulvous, causing a slightly mottled appearance ; 

 head, much crested, and hind neck creamy buff, with dark brown 

 longitudinal centres to the feathers ; ear-coverts blackish ; cheeks 

 and under surface of the body creamy buff, inclining to white on 

 the abdomen ; under tail-coverts entirely white, the breast distinctly 

 streaked with dark brown, the lower parts with narrower and more 

 rufous streaks, widening out into dart-shaped spots on the flanks ; 

 quills brown, barred with darker brown, the inner web white at 

 base, the secondaries tipped with white and barred plainly on the 

 inner web, which is rufous white ; upper tail-coverts brown, broadly 

 tipped with white ; tail brown, tipped with whitish and crossed with 

 four bars of darker brown, after which a whity brown interspace, 

 and then a broad subterminal band of black, the under surface of 

 the tail ashy white, purer white towards the base of the inner web, 



