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It is dull white, spotted and blotched with very pale reddish brown ; 

 the markings are very evenly distributed over the whole shell. The 

 specimen measures 3-3 by 2 - 5. 



1. Orange River Colony, 10th June Crowley Bequest. 

 (T. Ay res: Tristram Coll.). 



Spizaetus coronatus (Linn.). 



Spizaetus coronatus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 266 (1874) ; id. ed. 

 Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 39 (1875-84) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. 263 

 (1899). 



The egg of the Crowned Hawk-Eagle in the Collection is a 

 regular oval, of rough texture, without gloss, and plain white. 

 It measures 2'9 by 2-12. 



1. South Africa. Old Collection. 



Spizaetus nipalensis (Hodgs.). 



Spizaetus nipalensis, Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 207 (1874) ; id. 



Hand-l. i. p. 263 (1899). 

 Spizaetus nepalensis, Gates ed. Hume, Nests 8c Eggs 2nd. Birds, iii. p. 145 



(1890) ; Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind, ; Birds, iii. p. 352 (1895). 



The eggs of Hodgson's Hawk-Eagle are of a blunt oval form, 

 coarse in texture, and without gloss. The specimens in the Col- 

 lection have a greyish -white ground-colour. One is marked with 

 a few small brown blotches on the smaller half of the egg ; 

 the other is marked, chiefly over the larger half, with blotches of 

 inky purple and spots of reddish brown. They measure re- 

 spectively : 2-55 by 1-93 ; 2-78 by 2-18. 



1. Bussahir, Himalayas, 5th Jan. Hume Coll. 



1. Masuri, Himalayas, 8th March. Hume Coll. 



Spizaetus cirrhatus (Gm.). 



Spizaetus cirrhatus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 269 (1874) ; Oates ed. 



Hume, Nests & Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 147 (1890) ; Blanf. Fauna Brit. 



Ind., Birds, iii. p. 349 (1895) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 263 (1899) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 7 (1899). 

 Spizaetus ceylonensis, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 55 (1878). 



The eggs of the Crested Hawk-Eagle are pointed ovals, rather 

 variable in breadth, and occasionally they are short ellipses. The 

 shell is slightly rough and entirely without gloss. A few specimens 

 are plain white ; the majority are sparingly marked at the larger 

 end with specks, spots, and occasionally with crooked lines of rufous 

 and yellowish brown. They measure from 2'4 to 2'95 in length, 

 and from 1-85 to 2'2 in breadth. 



1. S. Konkan, West Coast of India, Hume Coll. 

 6th Jan. (G. Vidal). 



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