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whole tail black with median brownish 
white band (17-25 mm.) ; cheeks, throat 
and chest blackish brown, the latter barred 
with rufous; below rufous brown with 
rounded white spots and indistinct black 
bars; under wing-coverts rufous brown, 
spotted with white ; primaries above and 
below black, with one greyish median band 
(20-30 mm. wide). 
*225. Spilornis rufipectus rufipectus Gould, P.Z.S., Celebes. 
1857, p. 222. [Macassar, type in Brit. 
Mus. ] 
Celebes Serpent-Eagle. 
Wing 3 335-340, 2 345-355 mm.; head 
black ; above purplish brown, upper tail- 
coverts tipped with white; wing quills 
with broad subterminal band of purplish 
brown and banded with dark brown below ; 
tail tipped with white and with broad 
blackish subterminal band and 2 less dis- 
tinct ones nearer base, the basal pale bands 
brown and apical whitish ; face and throat 
slaty black; chest uniform dull rufous ; 
below deeper brown with large spots and 
bars of white. 
225a. Spilornis rufipectus raja Sharpe, Bull. Borneo 
B.O.C., 1., p. lv. (1893). [Kuching, typein (Sarawak). 
Brit. Mus. ] 
Sharpe’s Serpent-Eagle. 
Smaller ; wing (nearly ad.) 309 mm. ; more 
closely banded and spotted below. 
1 One other form of Spilornis, S. asturinus Meyer (S. B. Nat. Ges., Isis, Dresden, 
b. 13, 1 884, Patr. ign.) I do not know the relations or distribution of, and so cannot 
place it. 
