170 Lieut. C. G. Finch-Davies on [Ibis, 



Of two of these I have had photographs sent me ; both are 

 undoubtedly referable to this species. One is a young bird, 

 the other moulting into adult plumage. 



Durban Museum, Durban. — One specimen, apparently an 

 adult female. I have not seen this specimen, but the 

 Director, Mr. E. C. Chubb, writes to me as follows : '' We 

 possess a mounted specimen of a Hieraaetus which has long 

 puzzled me, the wing-measurement is 17| inches. The 

 colour above is brownish black, most of the feathers tipped 

 with white, including the nape, scapulars, coverts, secondaries, 

 and upper tail-coverts. Most of the feathers have indistinct 

 greyish bands about the middle of their length, and are white 

 near the base. Head very dark brown, some of the feathers 

 very slightly tipped with white, a crest about 1^ inches long. 

 Tail 8| inches. Feathers of tail dark brown with about 

 four pearl-grey bands and tipped with white. Cheeks 

 black ; throat, under surface of body, under tail- and wing- 

 coverts wdiite, densely spotted with black.^' 



The wing-measurement given above seems very large ; 

 perhaps there is some error, but the colouring, especially of 

 the cheeks and under surface, and the crest leave no doubt 

 in my mind as to the species. 



I will now discuss the question as to what name this 

 species must bear in the future. I will first take the generic 

 name. The genus Lophotriorchis was proposed by the late 

 Dr. Bowdler Sharpe in the first volume of the Catalogue 

 of Birds for the reception of two species of Crested Hawk- 

 Eagle {L. isidori and L. kieneri), and when later he described 

 the present species, he referred it to the same genus. I have 

 no knowledge of the two above-mentioned exotic species, 

 but after a careful examination of several examples of the 

 present species, it seems to me that it is congeneric with the 

 species usually referred to the genus Hieraa'eius, such as 

 pennatus, fasciatus, spilogaster, etc. Certainly it has a short 

 crest, but so also have H. morphnoides of Australia and 

 H, wahlbergi of Africa (if the latter can be referred to this 



