316 FALCONIDJi. 



brown, mesially streaked with creamy white ; lower abdomen, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts creamy white, with pale rufous margins, a 

 little brighter than on the breast ; primaries purplish black, secon- 

 daries rufous, tipped with whitish, and shaded along each side of the 

 shaft with more or less distinct purplish brown, especially the inner- 

 most, which ai'e almost entirely of the latter colour ; tail-feathers 

 rufous, tipped with whitish, shaded in the centre with brown, 

 which colour overspreads the apical portion of the outermost. 



Hah. Northern and eastern parts of Australia, New Guinea, Am- 

 boina, Batchian, Temate, Morty Island, Celebes, Louisiade archipelago. 



a. Ad. St. Austi-alia. Lady Carrington [P.]. 



6. Ad. St. Port Essiug-ton. J. B. Jukes, Esq. [P.]. 



c. 2 ad. st. Louisiade archipelago. Voyage of the ' Rattlesnake.' 



d. $ ad. sk. Dorey. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C." 



e. S ad. sk. Batchian. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 

 /, Ad. sk. Morty Island. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 

 g. 2 juv. sk. Morty Island. A. R. Wallace, Esq. C. 

 h. cJ ad. st. Ternate. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 

 t. 2 juv. sk. Amboyna. A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C. 



J, Ad. sk. Amboyna. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P]. 



2. Haliastur sphenurus. 



Cinereous Eagle, var., Lath. Gen. Syn. Stippl. p. 18 (1801). 



Milvus sphenurus, Vieill. N. Diet. cVHist. Nat. xx. p. 564 (1818) ; id, 



et Oud. Gal. Ois. i. pi. xv. (1825). 

 Haliaetus canorus, Vir/. iS,- Jlorsf. Tr. Linn. S. xv. p. 187 (1826); Gmdd, 



Syn. B. Atistr. pt. "iii.^ pi. 3."fig. 2 (1838). 

 Haliastur sphenurus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 18 (1845) ; Gould, B. Austr. 



i. pi. 5 (e. 1845) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 15 (1850) ; Strickl. Orn. Syn. 



p. 74 (1855) ; Ve>-r. et Des Murs, Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1860, p. 385 ; 



Goidd, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 20 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 18 



(1869). 

 Ictinoaetiis canorus, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 73. 

 HaUaetus sphenurus, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Aquilffi. p. 21 (1862) ; id. 



Revue Accipitr. p. 123 (1873). 



Adult. Above ashy brown, darker and more chocolate-brown on 

 the scapulars and wing-coverts ; head washed with rufous ; feathers 

 of the hind neck fulvous in the centre, producing a streaked appear- 

 ance ; sides of face and throat fulvous ; breast dull ochraceous, the 

 bases of the feathers whitish, as also a streak towards the tip of the 

 feathers, which beiug bordered with brown on the breast causes the 

 feathers of this part to appear much striped ; the flanks narrowly 

 black-shafted ; imder tail-coverts and thighs whitish, with dark 

 brown shafts ; under wing-coverts ochi'aceous, like breast, barred 

 and streaked with dark brown ; primary coverts and primaries 

 brownish black, the latter rufous white at base of inner web ; 

 greater coverts and secondaries deep sepia-brown ; tail greyish 

 brown, paler and more ashy at tips and towards the base of the 

 outer feathers ; the inner web mottled with greyish brown, the re- 

 mains of obsolete bars ; cere and bill greyish ; feet pale bluish white ; 

 iris bright hazel. Total length 22 inches, culmen 1-7, wing 16-6, 

 tail 10-5, tarsus 2-35. 



