38 FALCONID^;. 



Gen. Lophotriorchis. 



Nostrils visible ; no chin tuft ; crest long and wedge-shaped ; bill short, 

 high at the base, with a prominent festoon ; tarsi feathered to the base. 



34. Lophotriorchis kieneri, Geoff. St. HiL Rev. Zool. 1845, pi. 



35 ; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. Br. Mus. p. 255. Spizaetus kieneri, Gray, Gen. B. \. 

 p. 14; Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 216 ; id. Sir. F. i. p. 311, Limnaetus 

 kieneri, SfrickL Ann. Nat. Hist. xiii. p. 33 ; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 74, 

 No. 37. The RUFOUS-BELLIED HAWK EAGLE. 



Above black, slightly shaded with brown. Occipital crest 2*4 to 2*5 inches 

 long ; feathers of the nape white at the base. Ear coverts mixed white,, black 

 and rufous ; cheeks, throat and breast pure white with a few narrow black shaft 

 lines ; rest of under surface including under wing and tail coverts tawny rufous, 

 streaked with black shaft stripes, broader on the flanks ; wings black, some of 

 the feathers externally brownish, the inner lining of quills whitish ashy with 

 a few blackish bars on the inner webs of the primaries; secondaries narrowly 

 tipped with white; tail black, very narrowly tipped with whitey brown and 

 w ith 5 7 indistinct bars of dark brown ; lower surface of tail ashy white with 

 a subterminal brown bar. Cere and feet yellow ; bill plumbeous ; irides brown. 



Length. 21 to 25 inches; wing 14 to 16; tail 8'5 to 9-5; tarsus 2-9 to 3; 

 culmen 1*5. 



Hab. >The Indian Peninsula, Burma to Borneo and Sumatra, Travancore. 

 Not uncommon in Lower Bengal, extending to the Himalayas. Mr. Inglis gives 

 it from N.-E. Cachar and Wallace from the Phillippines. Nothing is known of 

 its nidification. It is said to have a rapid and elegant flight and to mount and 

 soar well. 



Gen. NeopUS. Hodgs. 



Bill moderate, bending from the base, much hooked at the tip, with a slight 

 festoon in the upper mandible ; cere large ; nostrils ovoid oblique ; wings 

 exceeding the tail, which is long and slightly rounded ; primaries emarginate ; 

 claws nearly straight. 



35- NeopUS malayensiS, Tern. PL Col. i. pi. 1 17; Horsf. and Moore, 

 Cat. B. M. E. I. Co. i. p. 381 ; Jerd. B. bid. i. p. 65, No. 32; Hume, Rough 

 Notes, i. p. 187; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. B. M. p. 257. The BLACK EAGLE. 



