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Falco fulTiventer, Vieill. N. Diet, xxviii. p. 283 (1819) ; Pucker. Rev. 



et Mag. de Zool. 1850, p. 81. 

 Falco macei, Te7mn. PL Col. i. pis. 8, 223 (1824). 

 Haliaetus macei, Vig. Zool. Juuni. i. p. 336 (1824) ; Grai/, Gen. B. i. 



p. 17 (1845) ; Bp. Co7isp. i. p. 15 (1850) ; Strickl. Orn. Si/n. p. 52 



(1855) ; Gray, Hancl-l B. i. p. 17 (1869) ; Hume, Str. F. i. p. 159 



(1873). 

 Aquila macei, Less. Man. crOrn. i. p. 84 (1828). 

 Haliaetus imicolor, Gray S,- Harchv. III. Ind. Zool. pi. 19 (1832) ; Jerd. 



Ibis, 1871, p. 236. 

 Haliaetus albipes, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. v. p. 228 (1836). 

 Cuncuma albipes, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. vi. p. 367 (1837). 

 Haliaetus leucorj-phus. Keys. ^- Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. xxx (1840) ; 



Strickl. Orn. Syn.-p. 52 (1855) ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. tab. 8. figs. 5, 6 



(1858) ; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Aquilaj, p. 590 (1862) ; Pelz. Verh. z.-b. 



Wien, 1863, p. 589 ; Degl. 4'- Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 45 (1867) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. i. p. 17 (1869); Hume, Rough Notes, ii. p. 242 (1870); 



Jerd. Ibis, 1871, p. 336 ; Hume Sf Henders. Lahore to Yark. p. 173 



(1873). 

 Ichtliyaetus leucoryphus, Bhjth, Ann. N. H. xiv. p. 37 (1844). 

 Haliaetus lanceatus, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 8l (1844). 

 Pontoaetus macei, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 280. 

 Cuncuma macei, Gray, Cat. Accipitr. 1848, p. 23. 

 Pontoaetus leuconphus, Gray, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 2 (1849). 

 Aquila deserticola, Eversm. Bxdl. Sac. Imp. Mosc. xxv. p. 545, tab. 8 



(1852). 

 Haliaetus fulviTenter, Je»-</. J5. Lid. i. p. 82 (1862). 



Advlt male. Above dark brown, with a slight purplish gloss, some 

 of the greater coverts slightly margined with paler brown ; quills 

 blackish, the secondaries rather browner, like the scapularies, the 

 lower surface of the quills brown, inclining to bluish ash-colour on 

 the inner web of the primaries, some of the secondaries mottled with 

 white near the base of the inner web ; lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts purplish brown, some of the outermost of the latter 

 whitish at base ; tail white, blackish at base, and having a broad 

 terminal band of black ; head, hind neck, and interscapulary region 

 sandy brown, darker brown on the head, and more tawny on the 

 hind neck, the feathers of which are streaked with fulvous ; sides of 

 face and throat buify white, the latter with narrow whitish streaks 

 down the centre of the feather ; rest of under sm'face of body dull 

 fulvous brown, lighter on the chest, where the feathers are paler- 

 centred, and deeper brown on the flanks, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries blackish brown, slightly 

 mottled with white, especially near the base of the median lower 

 coverts ; cere pale bluish green ; nostrils, gape, and base of lower 

 mandible bluish ; upper mandible greenish horn-colour, dusky at tip ; 

 feet greyish white ; iris pale brownish 3'ellow. Total length 30 inches, 

 culmen 2-6, wing 22-2, tail 12-2, tarsus 3-6. 



Adult female. Bather larger than the male. Total length 33 inches, 

 wing 24-4, tail 11-7, tarsus 4-3. 



Young. Above dark brown, the feathers of the back deeper towards 

 their bases, the wing-coverts lighter than the back, the median series 



