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216. 



Length 33 in. ; wing 20.5 ; tail 15 in. ; above 

 rich brown, with paler margins to the feathers, 

 especially on head, where they are whitish 

 buff ; tail dark brown with about 4 darker 

 bands ; below creamy white, the thighs and 

 flank feathers with reddish brown shaft 

 stripes. 



Pithecophaga jefferyi Ogilvie Grant, Bull. 

 B.O.C., vi.,p.xvii.(Dec.30, 1896); id., Ibis, 

 1897, p. 214, pi. V. [Samar, Philipp. Is.] 

 Philippine Monkey -Eagle. 



Philippine 

 Islands. 



Gen. LVIII. SPILORNIS Gray (1840). 



Crest feathers of head rounded, not lanceolate ; face 

 bare with only a few short bristles. 



Length? (Himalayas) 30 ; wing 19.50-21 in. ; 

 cJ (Simla, N.W. Himalayas) length 27.50, 

 wing 20.1 in. ; wings reaching beyond median 

 pale band on tail ; above purplish brown ; 

 head and crest black with white bases ; wing- 

 coveits with small spots of white ; secon- 

 daries broadly and upper tail-coverts narrowly 

 tipped with white ; tail black with a very 

 broad median band of brownish white ; 

 throat, hind cheeks and ear-coverts blackish 

 brown ; below pale ochraceous brown ; chest 

 with transverse vermiculations of dark brown; 

 breast and belly with spots of white (bordered 

 with dark brown), becoming bars on thighs 

 and under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts 

 pale rufous ; outer primaries white below with 

 terminal black band about 4 in. wide and one 

 median blackish band, also slight remains of a 

 second band near base. 

 217. Spilornis cheela cheela (Lath.), Ind. Orn,, i., 

 p. 14 (1790). [" India " = Lucknow, apud 

 W. L. Sclat.] 

 Crested Serpent -Eagle. 



Smaller, tarsi more slender and feet smaller ; 

 wing(^ (S. India) 16 in. ; (Centr. Prov.) 17.25 

 in. ; (Assam) 17-17.50 in. ; wing $ (Assam) 

 17 in., (Centr. Prov.) 18.25-18,75 in. ; above 

 darker ; throat less blackish, much browner, 

 but with blackish shaft stripes ; much darker 



Himalayas 

 (Kashmir 

 to Nepal) ; 

 in winter to 

 N. India. 



