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59. Aq. n^via. (Savigny, Descr. de FEgypte, Ois. t. 1, et t. 2. 

 f. 1; Gould's B. E. pi. 8.) 



Syn. Faico ncevius, F. maculatus, et F. undulatus, Gmelin. 

 F. melanaetos, Savigny. Aq. clanga, Pallas. Aq. bifasciata, 

 Hornsch. Aq. poma7'inn,^vehm. Aq. planga et Spizaetos fuscus, 

 Vieillot. Spotted Eagle and Brown-hacked Eagle, var. a, 

 Latham. 



Hab. E. of Europe, Asia, and N. Africa : rare in W. Europe, 

 including the British Islands ; common in the Bengal Sunder- 

 bans ; found likewise in the Himalaya (abundantly), and 

 in C. and S. India : not on the plains, like the last, but in wooded 

 and watery situations. 



60. Aq. HA.STATA. 



Syn. Morphnus hastatus, Lesson. Spizaetus punctatus, Jerdon. 

 Limnaetus unicolor, Blyth, J. A. S. xii. p. 128. 



Hab. Common in the Bengal Sunderbaus ; and found like- 

 wise in E. Bengal generally, and in C. and S. India, 



Remark. — This and the preceding three species vary greatly 

 in plumage. No. 58 is a miniature of No. 57; No. 59 is larger 

 than No. 58, but less robust; and the present species, with 

 about the same linear dimensions, is, again, of more feeble con- 

 formation. A practised eye readily distinguishes either, in any 

 phase of colouring. No. 58 is, to a great extent, a devourer of 

 eggs and callow broods — an habitual nest-robber, like No. 59. 



Genus Neopus, Hodgson (also Heteropus, Hodgson ; 

 Onichaetus, Kaup; Ictinaetus, Jerdon, nee Kaup). 



61. N. MALAIENSIS. (PI. Col. 117.) 



Syu. Falco malaiensis, Reinwardt. Aquila et Heteropus et 

 Neopus perniger,Yio(k^zox\. Nisaetus"? ovivorus, Jerdon. Black 

 Eagle, Jerdon, Catal.* 



Hab. S.E.Himalaya; Nilgiris ; Malayan countries. 



* The Eagle, " about the size of the Aq. chrysaetos (colour black, but 

 head and neck white, tail long and wedge-shaped)," seen at Rupshoo in 

 Ladakh by Mr. A. L. Adams (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 471), very decidedly cannot 

 have been the present species, as suggested by Mr. Adams. Possibly 

 it might have been the great Haliaetus pelagicas (Pallas). 



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