234. Cuncuma vociferoides 

 Zool., 1845, p. 175 bis. 

 in Brit. Mus.] 

 Madagascar Sea-Eagle. 



144 



(Des Murs), Rev. 

 [Madagascar, type 



Size similar ; wing ad. 515 mm. ; general 

 plumage blackish brown ; tail bufiy white ; 

 feathers of head, hind neck and throat with 

 buffy margins ; cheeks and sides of neck 

 white ; chest and under parts like upper 

 parts, but with rufous stripes on chest. 



Madagascar ; 

 Mauritius (?). 



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Gen. LXVI. POLIOAETUS Kaup (1850). 

 Type by subs, desig. (Gray 1855) Falco ichthyaetus Horsf. 



Foot resembling that of Pandion. 



I* 235. Polioaetus ichthyaetus (Horsf.), Tr. 

 Soc, xiii., p. 136 (1821). [Java.] 

 White-tailed Fishing Eagle. 



Linn. 



Wing S 455, ? 518 mm. ; above brown, 

 darker on wings, the primaries blackish ; 

 head and neck all round ashy grey ; tail 

 white, with broad terminal bar of brown ; 

 breast brown ; belly white ; under side of 

 wing leaden brown, with a white spot at 

 base of primaries ; feet yellowish white. 



Indian 

 Peninsula ; 

 Ceylon ; Burma ; 

 Malay Peninsula 

 and Archipelago 



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*236. Polioaetus humilis humilis (Miill. and Schl.), 

 Verhandel. Nat. Gesch. Zool. Aves, p. 47, 

 pi. 6 (1840). [Sumatra]. 

 Malayan Fishing Eagle. 



Smaller ; wing S 370, $ 410 mm. ; above 

 ashy brown, back and wings darker ; tail 

 pale brown at base, blackish brown sub- 

 terminally, the tip white ; throat, breast 

 and under wing-coverts ashy brown ; belly 

 white ; feet bluish white. 



Burma ; Malay 

 Peninsula ; 

 Sumatra ; 

 Borneo ; Java ; 

 Celebes. 



