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236a. Haliastur indus intermedius Gumey, Ibis, 

 1865, p. 28. [Java.] 

 Malay Brahminy Kite. 



Size similar ; wing (J 14.2 ; ? 15.3 in. ; head, 

 neck, interscapulary region and throat and 

 breast snowy white without any sign of black 

 streaks ; rest of plumage bright maroon ; 

 tail with a broad terminal bar of white ; cere 

 and bill pale yellow, latter darker at tip and 

 bluish at base ; feet whitish yellow. 

 236b. Haliastur indus leucosternus (Gould), P.Z.S., 

 1837, p. 138. [AuBtrsilia. =Moreton Bay, 

 Queensl., apudM^&ih., type in Philad. Acad.] 

 White-headed " Sea-Eagle." 

 [= H. i. girrenera (Vieill. et Oud.)] 



Rather larger, length ad. 22 ; wing 16.6 in. ; 

 above ashy brown, more rufous on head and 

 darker and more chocolate on scapulars and 

 wing-coverts ; primaries brownish black ; 

 tail greyish-brown, paler at tip, and at base of 

 outer feathers ; throat fulvous ; breast dull 

 ochraceous, the feathers bordered with brown 

 and streaked with white ; flanks with black 

 shaft-streaks ; cere and bill greyish ; feet 

 bluish white. 

 237. Haliastur sphenurus sphenurus (Vieill.), N. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xx., p. 564 (1818). 

 [" Australia "=N.S. Wales, apud Math., type 

 in Paris Mus.] 

 Whistling Eagle. 



" Lighter and smaller " (Math.) ; " of a much 

 lighter colour, especially on the upper portion 

 of the head, neck and scapulars " (North). 

 237a. Haliastur sphenurus sarasini Math., Bds. 

 Austral., v., p. 169 (1916). [New Caledonia.] 

 New Caledonian Whistling Eagle. 



Sub-Fam. VI. MILVIN^, 

 Head usually closely feathered ; loral bristles 

 scanty or wanting ; cere contracted ; nostrils oval, 



Indo-Chinese 

 Provinces, 

 Malay Pen., 

 Java, 

 Sumatra, 

 Borneo, 

 Philippine 

 Is., Celebes : 

 Babber I. 



Australia, 

 New Guinea, 

 Moluccas, 

 Tenimber, 

 Ceram, 

 Aru Is. 



Australia. 



New 

 Caledonia. 



