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white, and the margins of the other occipital feathers are of 
a light yellowish brown. Some of the scapulars and upper 
alar feathers (especially the latter) are slightly tipped with 
the same; the tail, which is of a somewhat lighter brown than 
the back, is tipped with a very narrow edging of white, and 
is also crossed by seven blackish brown bars, the upper one 
being, however, somewhat indistinct, and the two lower being 
separated by an interval which is twice the breadth of the 
spaces between the other bars. The throat has a broad black- 
ish band running down its centre, with two similar and nearly 
parallel bands proceeding from the corners of the mouth, the 
three bands all merging in a cluster of dark brown lanceolate 
marks upon the upper portion of the breast, the intervals 
between these markings and also the whole plumage of the 
lower sternal and abdominal regions being tinged with a yel- 
lowish rufous; the under tail coverts are barred with brown 
and white, the former bars being much broader than the latter ; 
and the thighs and tarsi are marked throughout their length 
with narrow equidistant transverse bars of the same colours. 
“A second and apparently less adult specimen in the Norwich 
Museum resembles the one above described, except in the crest 
being less developed and in the colours generally being some- 
what lighter, particularly on the head, and the markings, 
especially on the lower part of the tarsi, being paler and less 
distinct. 
“ Snisaetus Nipalensis, Hodgson. (Here Dr. Jerdon’s descrip- 
tion &§c., is quoted from the Birds of India.) 
“ Snizaetus Cirrhatus, Gmel. This species (the common 
Crested Eagle of India and Ceylon) differs from 8. Wipalensis 
in its somewhat smaller and much more variable size, in the 
paler character of the transverse markings on the abdomen and 
thighs, in the entire absence of the white abdominal ovate spots, 
and especially in the less powerful development of its talons 
generally, and of the inner and hinder claws in particular, 
these being very decidedly smaller and feebler in this species 
than in S. Nipalensis. 
“§. Cirrhatus is figured in the Pl. Col. pl. 282, under 
the name of Fico Cristatellus. 
“ Snizaetus Caligatus, Raflles. This species is very nearly 
allied to the preceding (with which many Ornithologists con- 
sider it to be identical,) but appears to differ from it in the 
following particulars, viz., first by the non-development of the 
crest, which is a marked feature in most specimens of S. Cirr- 
hatus, but which is entirely absent in the great majority of 
specimens of S. Caligatus and when it does appear, is much less 
