205. 
+205a. 
118 
Wing 2 560 mm. ; above black ; wings 
brown ; quills shaded with pale ashy grey, 
and with broad sub-terminal band of black ; 
tail with 2 broad bands of ashy grey and 
remains of a third; throat black; below 
yellowish buff, broadly banded with back, 
chest almost uniform ; under wing-coverts 
chestnut. Immature above brown with 
indistinct darker bands and whitish mar- 
gins; tail with 3 lighter bands; below 
white. 
Spizaetus nipalensis nipalensis (Hodgs.) 
Jnl. As. Soc. Beng., v., p. 229 (1836). 
[Nepal.} 
Himalayan Hawk-Eagle. 
Smaller ; Wing ¢ 450-460, 2 485-495 mm. ; . 
crest 70 mm. ; above blackish brown, with 
paler margins, especially on head and hind 
neck; wings paler, banded with dark 
brown; tail ashy brown with 4 blackish 
brown bands; throat white, with black 
central stripe ; chest fawn with black shaft- 
streaks ; below brown spotted and barred 
with white. Immature: head and neck 
white with dark centres to feathers ; tail 
with 6 darker bands ; below white, shghtly 
streaked with dark brown ; flanks brown. 
Spizaetus nipalensis kelaarti Legge, Ibis, 
1878, p. 202. [Ceylon.| 
Mountain Hawk-Eagle. 
Wing 468-473 mm. ; with the white bands 
below broader and more regular. 
Himalayas, 
E. to Assam ; 
S. in winter to 
plains of India 
and Malay 
Peninsula. 
Ceylon. 
