ICTINAETTJS. 



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The generic name Neopus, used generally for this Eagle, was 

 published in 1844 (Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81), whilst Jerdon's name 

 Idinaetus dates from a year earlier, having been pubKshed by 

 Blyth (J. A. S. B. xii, p. 128) in a note to the paper in which 

 Hodgson gave the name Heteropus, which had to be discarded on 

 account of previous use (Ibis, 1894, p. 289). 



A single species. 



1210. Ictmaetns malayensis. The Black Eagle. 



Falco malayensis, Reinw., Temm. PI. Col. pi. 117 (1824). 



Aquila pernigra, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. v, p. 227 (1836). 



Heteropus perniger, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xii, p. 127. 



Ictinaetus ovivorus, Jerdon, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 128 (1843). 



Nisaetus ovivorus, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. xiii, p. 157 (1844). 



Ictinaetus malaiensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 7; id. Cat. p. 28; 



Irby, Ibis, 1861, p. 221. 

 Neopus malayensis, Horsf. ^ M. Cat. i, p. 381 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 65 ; 



Beavan, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 396, pi. 34; Hume, Bough Notes, p. 187 ; 



Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 257 ; Fairhank, S. F. iv, p. 253 ; Hume 



S)- Bourd. ibid. p. 355 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1877, p. 423 ; Hu7ne S^- Dav. 



S. F. vi, p. 11 ; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 198 ; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 47 ; 



Hume, Cat. no. 32 ; Butler, S. F. ix, p. 372 ; Davison, S. F. x, 



p. 335 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 190 ; id. in Hume's N. 8f E. 2nd ed. 



iii, p. 145 ; Hume, 8. F. xi, p. 9 ; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 31. 

 Neopus malaccensis, C. H. T. Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 407. 



Lahnonghong, Lepcha ; Hiigong, Bhotia ; Adavi nalla gedda, Tel. 



Fig. 87. — Left foot of /. malayensis, |. 



Coloration. Adult. Brownish black or black almost throughout ; 

 lores whitish ; tail-feathers, except near the tips, and inner webs 

 of quills towards the base, with mottled bars of grey above and of 

 white below ; lower parts sometimes browner. 



Toung birds are browner, and some have the head more or less 

 buff or pale tawny, especially on the sides ; the feathers of the 

 crown, hind-neck, and sides of neck, in some, with tawny terminal 

 spots; and the feathers of the lower parts with long drops or 

 broad median stripes of pale ochreous brown ; in one specimen 

 they are ochreous with black shaft-stripes and edges. These 



