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FALCONID^. 



feathers of the upper surface broadly tipped with whitish ; the 

 under surface deep rufous brown, all the feathers broadly streaked 

 down the centre with cream-colour ; the tail less distinctly barred 

 above than the adult, but much more plainly and numerously under- 

 neath ; cere greenish grey ; feet very pale greenish grey ; iris brown. 



Hah. Indian peninsula and the Himalayas, 

 a. Juv. St. India. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



h. Ad. St. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



c. Ad. sk. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



d. Juv. sk. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



e. Sternum. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 



59. LOPHOICTINIA. 



Lophoictinia, Kemp, Isis, 1847, p. 117 



Type. 

 L. isura. 



Range. Australia. 



Head of Lophoictinia isura. 



1. Lophoictinia isura. 



Milvus isurus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 140; id. Syn. B. Austr. pt. iii. 

 (18.38) ; Gray, Gm. B. i. p. 24 (1845) ; Goidd, B. Austr. i. pi. 22 

 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 21 (1850) ; ScM. Mus. P.-B. Milvi, p. 4 

 (1862) ; Gmdd, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 51 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. 

 B. i. p. 27 (1869). 



Lophoictinia isura, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 117. 



Milvus pacificus, Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 135 (1855). 



Adult. Above blackish brown, the median and greater coverts 

 paler brown, slightly washed with rufous, dark brown in the centre 

 of the feathers ; primary coverts dark brown, banded with blackish ; 

 primaries dark brown, externally shaded with grey, the secondaries 

 rather paler, all the feathers banded with black, the subterminal 

 band very broad ; lower surface of the wing ashy grey, white at the 

 base of quills, distinctly banded with blackish ; tail dark brown, 

 shaded with ashy above and slightly tipped with whitish, banded 

 with black, the subterminal bar broadest ; head distinctly crested, 

 dark rufous, streaked with black down the centre of the feathers ; 

 forehead, lores, fore part of cheeks, and throat whitish, with narrow 

 blackish shaft-stripes ; ear-coverts grey ; under siirface of the body 

 rufous, the sides of the neck slightly shaded with grey, the chest 

 thickly marked with broad black centres to the feathers, diminishing 



