53. HALIAETUS. 311 



clear hazel. Total length 25 inches, culmen 2*5, wing 20-5, taU 9-3, 

 tarsus 4. 



Adidt male. Similar to, but smaller than the female. Total length 

 22 inches, wing 19-2, tarsus 3"6. 



Young. Differs from the adult principally in being more dingily- 

 coloured and in not showing the contrast of colours as in the latter ; 

 thus the whole of the head, neck, and breast are more or less brown 

 iu the young, though generally giving indications of approaching 

 whiteness, especially about the ears and lower breast, the crown 

 being the last to change ; least wing-coverts blackish, with rufous 

 margins, the rest dark brown, but the greater ones for the most part 

 white, causing a large patch across the wing ; lower parts of the 

 belly brown, more or less varied with white, the thighs incliniug to 

 rufous ; tail ashy white, brown at the tip, and more or less brown 

 on the rest of the feather ; gape whitish yeUow ; orbits and cere 

 dusky ; bill dusky bluish ; iris darker hazel than in the adult. 



Eab. The whole of Africa. 



7. Haliaetus vociferoides. 



Hahaetus vociferoides, JDes 3Ii(rs, R. Z. 184^5, p. 175* ; id. Iconogr. 



Orn. pi. 7 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 15 (1850) ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. 



p. 52 (1855); Hartl. Faun. Madag. p. 16 (1861); Schl. P. Z. S. 



1866, p. 420 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 17 (1869). 

 Haliaetus vociferator, Sch. S,- Poll. F. M. Ois. p. 42, pi. 15 (1868) ; 



Schl. Mus. P.-B. Revue Accipitr. p. 118 (1873). 



Nearly adidt. Above dark brown, the wing-coverts with rufous 

 edgings and spots ; head paler brown, a little varied with ashj' 

 white, and incKuiug to blackish above the ear-coverts, the latter 

 quite white, the sides of the neck and hind neck streaked with 

 white ; throat pale rufous, slightly varied with white, and streaked 

 with dark brown ; rest of under surface brown, the upper breast 

 streaked longitudinally with rufous ; lower under tail-coverts and 

 taU white; quills dark brown, the primaries blackish, the secon- 

 daries slightly tipped with white, the lower surface of the wings 

 ashy grey ; under wing-coverts dark brown, inclining to rufous at 

 tip ; biU black ; feet greyish ; iris salmon-colour. Total length 

 24 inches, culmen 2-5, wing 20-4, tail 9*5, tarsus 3*8, middle toe 

 2-45. (Mus. Lugd.) 



Another specimen in the Leiden Museum is apparently younger, 

 and has the head and hind neck streaked with rufous, the whole of 

 the sides of the face and throat rufous, and the breast again plainly 

 streaked, many of the wing-coverts and feathers of the lower belly 

 and thighs tipped with fulvous ; ear-coverts ashy grey ; cere and 

 lores greyish ; bill black ; feet greyish ; iris brown. 



Hnh. Madagascar. 



