114 
195. Hieraaétus ayres. (Gurney), Ibis, 1862, 
p. 148, pl. iv. [Natal.] 
Ayres’s Little Eagle. 
[ = Lophotniorchis lucant Sharpe.] 
Wing @ 405 mm.; head with crest of 
45 mm., black; above sepia brown with 
white shoulder patch ; below white, heavily 
marked with brownish-black ; tail grey, 
with sub-terminal band and 4 narrow bars 
of black. 
. Hieraaétus wahlbergi (Sundev.) Civ. K. 
Vet. Akad. Stockh., 1850, p. 109 (1851). 
[Caffraria superion propre 25° lat.] 
Wahlberg’s Eagle. 
Wing 2 455 mm.; head with distinct 
occipital crest; plumage above brown, 
with paler margins; tail dark brown, 
tipped with whitish, with obsolete lighter 
bars on inner webs of feathers; below 
whity brown, varied with dark brown on 
throat and breast. 
Gen. LE  LOPHOPRIORCES Sharpe 
Type Astur kienert De Sparre. 
Size moderate ; head with a wedge-shaped crest. 
Loi. 
Lophotiiorchis kiener1 (De Sparre), Mag. 
Zool., 1835, Aves, pl. 35. [Himalaya, type 
in Phil. Ac. Mus.] 
Kiener’s Crested Eagle. 
Wing ad. 352-364 mm.; above black; 
cheeks, throat and breast white with black 
shaft stripes; below tawny rufous, with 
black shaft stripes; tail brownish with 
faint black bars. 
Tropical Africa, 
from Togoland 
and Somaliland, 
S. to Nyasaland, 
Delagoa Bay 
-and Natal. 
Tropical Africa, 
N. to Uganda 
and Erythrea 
on E. and 
Portug. Guinea 
on W. 
Indian 
Peninsula, 
Ceylon, Indo- 
Chinese Prov., 
Malay Peninsula 
to Celebes and 
Lesser Sunda 
Islands. 
