128 Lord Walden on a further Collection of 



imparting a streaked appearance to this portion of the plumage, 

 a distinct brown line descending from the chin to the breast. 

 Under tail-coverts and axillaries pale dingy ferruginous brown 

 irregularly barred with white. The elongated flank-plumes 

 covering the thighs white terminated and blotched with pale 

 feri'uginous brown. Thigh-coverts pale ferruginous brown, 

 those of the tarsus white, here and there speckled with brown. 

 Head and nape clothed with lanceolate feathers, white at their 

 base, the terminal and exposed portion of each centred with 

 dark brown and margined with ferruginous. No crest-plumes. 

 Remainder of upper plumage dark brown, each feather with 

 more or less of paler marginal shading. Upper surface of rec- 

 trices the same. Middle pair with four narrow ill-defined 

 but very dark brown transverse bars, and a broad terminal 

 dark brown band fringed with albescent. The rectrices imder- 

 neath albescent, the brown bands strongly contrasting. Under 

 wing-coverts white, irregularly but boldly banded with dark 

 brown. Quills underneath albescent, with three or four dark 

 brown transverse bands and tipped with the same colour. 

 Basal half of the quills almost pure white. Quills above, when 

 closed, dark brown. 



Wing 13'24 inches; tarsus 3'6j tail 10*4; bill from gape 

 1-7; total length 21-8 (in the flesh). 



This Eagle is a crestless form of L. ceylonensis (Gm.)"^ and 

 of Z/. cirrhatus (Gm.). The specimen above described is ab- 

 solutely identical in plumage with a Candeish example of L. 

 cirrhatus. It cannot be confounded with L. alboniger (Blyth) 

 in any stage of plumage ; for the adolescent phunage in that 

 species is of a uniform buff', and when older, but before it has 

 put on its handsome full dress of black and white, the mark- 

 ings are ferruginous buff", and not brown. But the best dif- 

 ferentiating character of L. alboniger is to be found in the 

 first joint of the middle toe being feathered for full half its 

 length, — a character it has in common with the much larger 

 L. nipalensis, and which is also possessed to a less extent 

 by the Celebesian representative form of that species, L. lan- 

 ceolatus. 



* Probably =Sjnzaetus sphinx, Hume, Str. Feath. i. p. 321. 



