128 
quills, which are barred with blackish, the 
secondaries also with broad subterminal 
band ; tail ashy brown, tipped with white, 
and with 4 black bands ; throat and chest 
fulvous brown ; below white, barred with 
dark brown. 
219. Circaétus cinerascens J. V. von Miill., 
Naum. 1851, heft iv., p. 27. [Sennar, Egypt. 
Sudan. | 
Cinereous Snake-Eagle. 
Size similar, wing ¢ 380, 2 407 mm. ; above 
grey ; tail whitish, shaded and tipped with 
pale brown, and with broad blackish sub- 
terminal band and 2 narrower bands near 
base ; below ashy brown, shaded with grey, 
the abdomen and thighs barred with white. 
Tropical Africa 
from Sudan and 
Portug. Guinea 
to the Zambesi. 
Gen. LXI. SPILORNIS Gray (1840). 
Type by orig. desig. Falco bacha Daud. [err.] =S. cheela malayensts 
Swann. 
Crest feathers of head rounded, not lanceolate ; 
face bare with only a few short bristles; size 
variable, length 30 in. to 18 in. 
*220. Spilornis cheela cheela (Lath.), Ind. Orn., i., 
p- 14 (1790). [“ India’ =Lucknow, apud 
W.Sclat.|| 
Crested Serpent Eagle. 
Wing 2 (Himalayas), 495-532, g 500-510 
mm.; wings reaching beyond median 
pale band on tail ; above purplish brown ; 
head and crest black with white bases ; 
wing-coverts with small spots of white ; 
secondaries broadly and upper tail-coverts 
narrowly tipped with white; tail black 
with very broad median band of brownish 
Himalayas 
(Kashmir to 
Nepal) ; 
in winter to 
N. India. 
