Mr. R. B. Sharpens Catalogue of Accipitres. 151 



Buteones, p. 24*); and in his supplement to this work {vide 

 Accipitres, p, 113), where he very unadvisedly, as I venture 

 to think, unites as one species C. g alliens , C. beaudouini, 

 and C. pectoralis, he again mentions the same specimen, re- 

 ferring to it in the following words : — " Adulte, Senegal, 

 1858, dessous en arriere du jabot d'un blanc uniforme, les 

 autres parties plus foncees que d^ordinaire/^ The latter com- 

 parison, no doubt, refers to the colour of the brown portions 

 of the plumage being darker in this specimen than in C. gal- 

 licus ; and the whole description entirely accords with the 

 appearance of the adult C. pecto7'alis. 



Von Heuglin, who agrees with Schlegel in considering C. 

 pectoralis specifically distinct from C. cinereus, and the 

 latter identical with C fimereus, describes the former, under 

 the specific name of thoracicus, at p. 84 of vol. i. of his ' Orni- 

 thologie Nordost-Afrika^s,^ in exact accordance with adult 

 South-African specimens, and adds some remarks respecting 

 the localities where he met with it, of which the following is 

 a translation: — "^The Pectoral Serpent-Eagle is not very 

 frequent in the warmer parts of North-eastern and Central 

 Africa ; its most northern limit is, I believe, the Province of 

 Dongola (Argo Island, August 1852) ; we obtained it in 

 Abyssinia, on the Blue and the White Nile, and in Kor- 

 dofan, but only from after the rainfall until the early spring/^ 



Under the head of C. cinereus, Von Heuglin remarks, at 

 p. 85 of the volume already quoted, " Verreaux explains the 

 whole-coloured Serpent-Eagle as the young of C. thoracicus f, 

 with which view neither Schlegel, Von Pelzeln, nor I agree; 

 the former is always larger, and has strikingly larger and 

 stronger talons. We have examined many eastern and south- 

 ern specimens, and the above comparison always holds good; 



* lu the succeeding page Prof. Schlegel makes the following remark, 

 under the head of C. cinereus : — " Taille plus forte et pieds beaucoup plus 

 vigoureux que dans les autres especes connues .... c'est decidement une 

 espece particuliere, dont j'ai encore examine des individus aux musees de 

 Berlin et de Francfort." 



t Conf. Ibis, 1862, p. '209. 



