50. spiLORNre. 293 



with indistinct remains of bars. Total length about 19 inches, 

 wing 13'7, tarsus 3-05. (Mtis. Lufjd.) 



Adult male (type of species). Above brown, the wing-coverts and 

 feathers of the middle back darker and more pui-plish brown, the 

 upper tail-coverts barred and tipped with white ; crown of head 

 black, the nape a little varied, and the under crest-feathers slightly 

 tipped with rufous ; hind neck rufous, the feathers dark broAvn in 

 the centre ; sides of face and throat ashy grey, with a whitish malar 

 stripe on each side ; chest very pale tawny, the lower parts rufous 

 brown, broadly barred across with white, the bars sometimes not 

 complete ; thighs white, barred with brown ; under tail-coverts 

 white, with a few remains of brown bars ; quills brown, barred with 

 darker purplish brown, the secondaries paler and tipped with white, 

 aU the quills white for the greater part of the inner web, the bars 

 more distinctly indicated ; tail pale ashy brown above, tipped with. 

 white, and crossed with three basal bars of dark brown, and a sub- 

 terminal band much broader and darker, the under surface of the 

 tail ashy white, the bars not very distinctly indicated. Total length 

 17 inches, culmen 1-55, wing 12-2, tail 8-5, tarsus 2-9, middle toe 

 1-4. (Mus. Lngd.) 



Adidt female. Similar to the male, but a little larger. Total 

 length 18 inches, wing 12-1, tail 8-9, tarsus 2-95. {Mus. Ltugd.) 



Hab. Sula Islands. 



a. Ad. st. Sula Islands. Purchased. 



h. (S ad. sk, Sula Islands. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [G.]. 



6. Spilornis holospilus. 



Buteo holospilus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830-31, p. 96. 



Hsematornis holospilus, Vigors, t. c. p. 170 ; Horsf. S^ Moore, Cat. B. 



Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 50 (1854). 

 Spilornis holospilus, Graif, Cut. Accipitr. p. 10 (1844) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 17 (1850) ; Strickl. 'Orii. Si/n. p. 45 (1855) ; Bli/fh, Ibis, 1866, 



p. 243; IVall. Ibis, 1868, p. 16. 

 Circaetus holospilus, Grag $ Mitch. Gen. of B. i. p. 16, pi. 7 (1845) ; 



Schl. Mm. P.-B. Buteones, p. 28 (1862) • Gray, Hand-L B. i. p. 14 



(1869); Schl. Revue Accipitr. p. 114 (1873). 



Adidt. Above pale brown with a purplish gloss, and irregularly 

 spotted or margined with white at the tip ; hind neck and intersca- 

 pulary region lighter than the rest of the back, the feathers tipped 

 with pale rufous, and ocellated with large rounded spots of white ; 

 head much crested, ashy black, the feathers slightly margined with 

 rufous and spotted with white ; sides of face and throat ashy grey, 

 the latter varied with oval markings of whitish ; under surface of 

 body very light tawny, ocellated all over with spots or half ])ars of 

 white, the latter more distinct on the under tail-coverts, the thighs 

 and under wing-coverts a little darker and more thickly spotted 

 with white ; wing-coverts dark brown, minutely spotted with white ; 

 primaries brown, whitish on inner web, black at tip, and crossed with 

 a bar of black about the middle of the feather ; secondaries pale 

 brown like the back, with white tips and faint indications of obso- 



