245 Mr. C. H. B. Grant on a Collecf/on of 



111. Lophoaetus occipitalis. African Crested Eagle. 

 Falco occipitalis Daud. Traite, vol. ii. 1800, p. 40 : Pays 



d'Auteniquoi = Knysna Dist. 



a. ? ad. Amala River, 5500 ft. Oct. 15, 



Total length in flesh : 22^ inches. Wing 390 mm. 



In good dress. 



[Irides bright yellow ; cere pale yellow ; bill bluish horn, 

 darker at tip ; feet dirty yellow. Frequently seen, and 

 usually perched on a tree or dead branch.] 



112. Circaetiis cinerens. Brown Harrier Eagle. 

 Circaetus cinereus Vieill. N. D. d'Hist. Nat. xxiii. 1818, 



p. 445 : Senegal. 



a. S ad. Nr. Lake Hannington, 3700 £t. Dec. 25. 



Total length in flesh : 26 inches. Wing 534 mm. 



In clean dress and but slightly worn. 



I have carefully examined the series in the British Museum, 

 and agree with Sclater, cf. * Ibis/ 1912, p. 9, Reichenow, 

 Shelley, etc., that C cinereus and C. pectoralis A. Smith 

 (S. A. Quart. Journal, 1836, p. 109 : South Africa) should 

 be in future kept separate ; and the character given by 

 Mr. Sclater of the difference in size of the bill is quite 

 constant throughout. 



Immature birds also are separable as follows : — 



C. cinereus. The feathers of the underparts white, with a 

 broad brown tip and brown bars or markings carried up both 

 webs to their base. 



C. jjectoralis. The feathers of the underparts white with 

 broad blackish brown tips only. 



The general appearance of C. cinereus below is wholly 

 brown with some white markings, and of C. pectoralis wholly 

 white with some brown markings, except the chest, which 

 is brown. 



A young bird in the Museum, from Kuruman, named 

 C cinereus^ is really the young of C •pectcralis, and has 

 the whole under surface cinnamon-brown, the throat being 

 longitudinally streaked with blackish and the whole upper 



