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222. Spilornis klossi Richm., Pr. U.S. N. Mus., Great 

 XXV., p. 304 (1902). [Gt. Nicobar I.] Nicobar 



Kloss's Serpent-Eagle. Island. 



Wing 3 258-260, ? 263-275 mm. ; above 

 paler drab colour, with a slight coppery 

 sheen ; ear-coverts and cheeks pale grey ; 

 some of wing-feathers with narrow white 

 tips and top of head and occipital feathers 

 black ; tail with 2 light bars, the terminal 

 dark band blacker ; throat buffy white 

 with indistinct grey median stripe ; chest 

 light cinnamon drab, becoming buffish 

 white below, unspotted, or occasionally 

 with faint obsolete spots. 



223. Spilornis elgini (Tytler and Blyth), J. As. Andaman Is, 

 Soc. Beng., xxxii., p. 87 (1863). [S. An- Nicobar Is. 

 danian I.\ 

 Elgin's Serpent Eagle. 



Wing ad. 395 mm. ; very dark form ; 

 above and below dark clove brown ; wing- 

 coverts and wings with minute white spots ; 

 tail with subterminal band brown and 

 narrow, the basal one brown but indis- 

 tinct, the terminal and median bands 

 black ; below with white spots distinct, 

 rounded, and continued up to throat. 



224. spilornis ahbotti Richm., Pr. U.S. N. Mus., Simalur Island, 

 xxvi., p. 492 (1903). [Simalur I., type in W. Sumatra. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus.] 

 Abbott's Serpent-Eagle. 



Wing S 330-345, ? 345-362 mm. ; above 

 deep clove brown, with a strong purplish 

 shade ; head and nape black ; hind neck, 

 mantle and scapulars with pale rusty 

 edgings ; secondaries tipped with white ; 



