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ochre ; the lower plumage rich buffy ochre with dark margins, giving a 

 striped appearance. 



Cere, gape and feet deep yellow ; bill greenish horny, black at the tip ; 

 iridcs dark brown. (Jerdon.) 



Length 27 inches, tail 13'5, wing 22, tarsus 3*5, bill from gape 2. The 

 female is larger : length 31 inches, wing 24. 



The Black Eagle may be recognized by the peculiar formation of its 

 foot, the outer toe being very small and the inner one nearly as long as 

 the middle toe. 



Mr. Blyth states that this Eagle occurs in Tenasserim, and Mr. Davison 

 observed one on Mooleyit mountain. It has not yet been discovered in 

 Arrakan and Pegu. 



It extends into India and Ceylon, and it ranges down the Malay penin- 

 sula to Sumatra, Java, Borneo and some of the further islands ; and Dr. 

 Tiraud records it from Cochin China. 



It frequents deep forests in mountainous countries, and is said to make 

 its nest on the face of a cliff, laying three eggs. 



Genus SPIZAETUS, Vieill. 



566. SPIZAETUS ALBONIGER. 

 BLYTIFS HAWK EAGLE. 



Nisaetus alboniger, Bl. J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 173. Spizaetus nanus, Wall. Ibis, 

 1868, p. 14, pi. 1. Spizaetus alboniger, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 14 ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds B. Mus. i. p. 271 j Bl B. Burm. p. 63 j Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi. p. 13 

 Hume, S. F. viii. p. 82. 



Description. Adult. Above black, with an occipital crest 2' 75 inches 

 in length, the latter tipped with white ; q uills dark brown, narrowly tipped 

 with whitish, crossed with bands of black, the subterminal one very broad ; 

 tail ashy brown, with two bands of black one basal, the other subterminal ; 

 lores whitish, the sides of the face black, like the crown ; a broad mous- 

 tachial streak of black ; under surface of body white, the breast plainly 

 marked with large drops of black, the belly and thighs thickly banded 

 with black, the abdomen and under tail-coverts a little more broadly; 

 under wing-coverts white, sparingly barred with black. Total length 

 22' 5 inches, culraen 1'4, wing 13, tail 9*5, tarsus ?>'3. 



Young. Above pale brown, the back, scapulars and small wing-coverts 

 darker, the greater coverts, scapulars and upper tail-coverts tipped with 



