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199a. Ictinaetus malayensis perfiiger (Hodgs.), 

 Jnl. As. Soc. Bengal, v., 1836, p. 227. 

 [Nepal.] 

 Indian Black Eagle. 



Similar but larger ; wing ad. 550-6(J0 mm. 



India, Ceylon, 

 Burma, Malay 

 Peninsula. 



Gen. LIV. SPIZIASTUR Gray (1841). 



Type by orig. desig. 5. atricapillas (Guv.) =Buteo mclanoleucus 



Vieill. 



Size of Buteo ; head crested ; claws curved and 

 powerful ; the circumference of inner claw about 

 equal to length of outer toe and claw. 



200. Spiziastur melanoleucus (Vieill.), N. Diet., 

 iv., p. 482 (1816). [Guiana.] 

 Black and White Crested Eagle. 



Wing S 380, $ 415 mm. ; above blackish, 

 quills and tail ashy brown, shghtly tipped 

 with fulvous and banded with black ; head, 

 neck and under surface white. 



Central and S. 

 America, from 

 Yucatan to 

 Brit. Guiana 

 and Brazil. 



Gen. LV. SPIZAETUS VieiU. (1816). 

 Type " L'Autour Huppe " Levaill. = Fa/co ornaius Daud. 



Size variable ; tarsi feathered as before ; crest 

 sometimes fully developed, sometimes absent ; 

 wings short, falling short of tail by more than 

 length of crest. 



*201. Spizaetus ornatus (Daud.), Traite, ii., p. 77 

 (1800). [Caye7me]. 

 Manduyt's Hawk-Eagle. 



Wing (5* 340-375, $410 mm. ; occipital cresl 

 75 mm. long ; sides and back of neck bright 

 rufous ; a black moustachial band below 



Mexico (Oaxaca) 

 to Panama and 

 S. to Ecuador 

 on W. and on E. 

 from Guiana 

 and Brazil to 

 Paraguay. 



