78 



Size similar ; length $ 32 in. ; wing 20.5 in. ; 

 above paler ; throat and chest ashy brown, the 

 throat varied with white bases to the feathers; 

 below white broadly banded with ashy brown. 

 212. Circaetus beaudouinii Verr. et Des Murs, Ibis, 

 1862, p. 212. [Bissao, Portug. Ouinea, types 

 in Norw. & Brit. Mus.] 

 Beaudouin's Snake-Eagle. 



Portuguese 

 Guinea ; 

 Senegambia. 



213. 



Smaller ; length ad. 25 in. ; wing 14.6 in. ; 

 above blackish, browner on head, with pale 

 whitish margins to all the feathers, including 

 the wing quills, which are barred with 

 blackish, the secondaries also with a broad 

 subterminal band ; tail ashy brown, tipped 

 with white, and with 4 black bands ; throat 

 and chest fulvous brown ; below white, barred 

 with dark brown. 



Circaetus fasciolatus Gray, Cat. Acciptr. B.M., 

 p. 18 (1848) {nom. nud.) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 130. [Natal.-] 

 Banded Snake-Eagle. 



Natal. 



214. 



Size similar, wing? 16.1,cJ 15 in. ; above grey ; 

 tail whitish, shaded and tipped with pale 

 brown, and with broad blackish subterminal 

 band and 2 narrower bands near base ; below 

 ashy brown, shaded with grey, the abdomen 

 and thighs barred with white. 

 Circaetus cinerascens Mull., Naum. 1851, heft 

 iv., p. 27. [Sennar, Egypt. Sudan.] 

 Cinereous Snake -Eagle. 



Tropical 

 Africa, 

 E. to W. 



Length 25.60 ; wing 16.20 ; tail 9.90 ; throat 

 and chest with black shaft stripes. [Not seen.] 

 215. Circaetus rufulus Reichenow, Orn. M.B., xiii., 

 pp. 179-80 (1905). [Songea, German E. Afr.] 



" German " 

 E. Africa. 



Gen. LVII. PITHECOPHAGA Ogilvie Grant (1896). 



Bill very deep and much compressed, ridge of culmen 

 much curved ; nostrils a vertical slit ; lores and 

 cheeks covered with bristles only ; head with a 

 crest of long lanceolate feathers ; feet very powerful ; 

 tarsi mostly naked, with a row of large scutes down 

 front ; wings short and rounded ; tail very long. 



