7216. 
217. 
218. 
127 
with ashy grey ; upper tail-coverts tipped 
and barred with white; tail ashy brown 
with 4 blackish bands; chest blackish ; 
throat white, streaked with blackish ; 
below white ; juv. tawny below. 
Circaétus cinereus Vieill., N.D., xxiil., p. 445 
(1818). [Senegal, type in Paris Mus. ] 
Black-bellied Snake-Eagle. 
Size nearly the same; wing 2 558 mm. ; 
bill much deeper, upper mandible from 
ridge to gonys, measured through anterior 
edge of nostril, 23 mm. as against 19 mm. 
in C. pectoralis ; tarsi also much stouter ; 
whole under parts uniform blackish brown ; 
immature brown below with white mark- 
ings, not white with brown markings as in 
C. pectoralis. 
Circaétus beaudouini Verr. et Des Murs, 
Ibis, 1862, p. 212, pl. vu. [Bzssao, Portug. 
Guinea, type in Norw. Mus.] 
Beaudouin’s Snake-Eagle. 
Size nearly the same; wing @ 520 mm. ; 
above paler ; throat and chest ashy brown, 
the throat varied with white bases to the 
feathers ; below white broadly banded with 
ashy brown. 
Circaétus fasciolatus Gray, Cat. Acciptr. 
B.M., p. 18 (1848) (nom. nud.) ; Gurney, 
Ibis 1861, p. 130. [Natal, type in Brit. 
Mus. | 
Banded Snake-Eagle. 
Smaller ; wing ad. 370 mm. ; above black- 
ish, browner on head, with pale whitish 
margins to all the feathers, including wing 
Be & W. 
Tropical Africa 
from Senegal 
and Sudan S. to 
Cape Colony. 
Portuguese 
Guinea, 
Senegambia, 
Kordofan. 
Natal, N. to 
Tanganyika 
Territory. 
