310 FALCONID^. 



and the upper tail-coverts plainly margined with whity brown ; 

 greater coverts dark brown, with whity-brown tips ; quills blackish, 

 externally shaded with ashy, the innermost secondaries dark brown 

 like the back, lower surftice of quills ashy brown, some of the inner- 

 most primaries inclining to whitish on inner web ; tail dark bro-wTi, 

 shaded with ashy above and below ; head, neck, and underparts 

 fulvous brown, deeper on the head, and varied with white bases to 

 the abdominal plumes and under tail-coverts, the head and neck 

 rather darker than the underparts, and streaked with sandy brown, 

 the chest and breast-feathers with broad whity-brown margins and 

 tips ; under wing-coverts dull brown, margined with paler brown, 

 the median series streaked with whity brown, the greater ones ashy 

 white at the base, and mottled along the shaft towards the tip, which 

 is also white ; feet clear pale lemon-yellow. 



Hah. From the Caspian eastwards to India and Burmah. 



fl. Ad. St. India. Major-Gen. Hardwicke [P,]. 



h. Pull. sk. India. Pvu-chased. 



c. Ad. sk. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.^ 



d. Juv. St. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. P. 



e. Ad. st. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. P. 

 /. Juv. sk. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.^ 

 g. Juv. St.* 



h,i. Sternum, B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



6. Haliaetus vocifer. 



Le Vocifer, Lei-ciUl Ok. (TAfr. i. p. 17,pl. 4 (1799). 



Falco vocifer, Baud. Traitejn. p. 6.5 (1800, ex Levaill.). 



Aquila vocifera, Dion. Diet. Sc. Nat. i.p. 35.5 (1816). 



Haliaetus vocifer, Ciiv. Hegne An. i. p. .316 (1817) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 16 (1845) ; Des 3Iurs, Iconoqr. Orn. pi. 8 (1845) ; Bj). Cmsp. i. 



p. 15 (1850) ; StricM. Orn. Spi.-p. 51 (1855) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 8 (1857) ; ScM. Miis. P.-B. Aquila;, p. 16 (1862) ; Zayard, B. S. 



Afr. p. 17 (1867) ; Hmigl. Orn. K.O.-Afr. i. p. 53 (1869) ; Gray, 



Hand-l i. p. 53 (1869) ; 'Finsch n. HaHl Fog. Ostafr. p. 38 (1870) ; 



Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 9 (1872). 

 Pontoaetus vocifer, Kavp, Classif. Sdtig. u. Vog. p. 122 (1844). 

 Cuncuma vocifer. Gray, Cat. Accipitr. 1848, p. 25. 

 Haliaetus damans, C. Brehm, J. f. O. 1853, p. 199. 

 Pandion vocifer, vai'. orientalis, Ilevgl. J. f. 0. 1863, p. 8. 



Adult female. Entire head and neck, including the interscapular 

 region above and the entire breast below, pure white ; tail also en- 

 tirely white ; remainder of lower parts, including the thighs, sides 

 of body, under wing-coverts, and axillaries, deep chestnut ; rest of 

 upper surface blackish brown, the primaries quite black, greyish on 

 their under surface ; least wing-coverts entirely rufous, and those 

 along the carpal bend margined with rufous ; cere and orbits very 

 pale yellow ; bill bluish, pale yellow at base ; feet yellow ; iris 



* Marked by Mr. 6. R. Gray as the true H. hucoryphus (Pall.), but without 

 any register or trace of its origin. 



