72 



200. 



with black shaft streaks ; below brown 

 spotted and barred with white. Young have 

 head and neck white with dark centres to the 

 feathers ; tail with 6 darker bands ; below 

 white, slightly streaked with dark brown ; 

 flanks brown. 



Sjnzaetus nipalensis nipalensis (Hodgs.) Jul. 

 As. Soc. Beng., v., p. 229 (1836) [Nepali 

 Himalayan HaAvk-Eagle . 



Himalayas, 

 S. in winter 

 to plains of 

 India and 

 Malay 

 Peninsula ; 

 China ? 



Ceylon. 



With the white bands below broader and more 

 regular. 

 200a. Spizaetus iiijialensis kelaarti Legge, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 202 [Ceylon]. 

 Mountain Hawk-Eagle. 



Larger ; rj about equal to $ of tyjjical race. 

 200b. Spizaetus nipalensis orieJitalis Temm.&Schleg. N. Japan, 

 in Siebold's Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 7, .pi. 3 (text' 

 1844, pi. 1845) [Ja2)an.] 

 Japanese Hawk-Eagle. 



[Not separable unless a breeding bird in China.] 

 200c. Spizaetus nipaleyisis foJciensis, W. Sclat. in China. 

 MS Cat. Accip. Coll. Brit. Mus, [^ Ah 

 Ch'ung, Fokien Prov. China, Coll. B.3I.] 

 Chinese Hawk-Eagle. 



Length $ 32 in., wing 17.8 ; ,^ wing 16 in. 

 Above brown ; feathers of hind neck and 

 mantle with pale bases and black shaft 

 streaks ; crest black, 3.8 in. long ; wing quills 

 rich brown, barred with blackish ; tail with 

 broad blackish subterminal band and 3 

 narrower bands ; throat white with central 

 black stripe and bordered by 2 black mous- 

 tachial stripes ; below brown, more rufous 

 and mottled with white on chest. 

 201. Spizaetus cirrhatus cirrhaius [Gniel.), S.N.,!., Indian 



p. 274 (1788) [India]. Peninsula. 



Indian Hawk-Eagle. 



Smaller ; wing 15.20 — 14 in. 

 201a. S^nzaetus cirrhatus ceylonensis (Gmel.), S.N., Ceylon, 

 i.. p. 275 [Ceylon]. 

 Ceylonese Hawk-Eagle. 



