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General colour above brown with a sligbt bronzy gloss in certain lig-hts, most of tbe feathers witli 

 a dull wliitish edging-, more distinct on the feathers of the liead and neck wbicli are edged witb boary 

 whitisb and form ratber a füll crest : least wing-coverts conspicuously margined witb white, all the feathers 

 dark brown before the tip, the greater series with one or two dark bars : quills brown, regularly barred 

 with darker brown, the terminal bar broader than the others : tail brown, mottled with whity brown towards 

 the base, and crossed with seven bars of darker brown, all the feathers narrowly edged with whitish at 

 the tip: lores and region of the eye bare, scantily haired: sides of face and sides of neck brown lihe the 

 crest with paler and more fulvescent margins: chin whitish: lower throat brown like the sides of the neck 

 and with the same pale edges: rest of imder surface white, ashy on the ehest, some of the flank feathers 

 slightly washed with brown: under wing-coverts white: lower surface of quills greyish white with hroad 

 bars of dark brown, breaking up into mottlings towards the base of the feathers. Total length 762 mm: 

 culmen 62: wing 410: tail 369: tarsus 127. 



Subfam. AQUILINiE. 



8. Neopus malayensis. 



Falco malayensis, Temm. Fl. Col. \, pl. 117 (1824, ex Remw. MS.'). 



Aquila malayensis, Vigors, Zool. Journ. i, p. 337 (1824): Gray., Gen. B. i, p. 14 (1845): Bp. Comp, i, p. 14 



(1850): StricM. Orn. Syii. pp. 60, 220. (1855): SM. Mm^ P. B. Aqidlce, p. 11 (1862): id. Vog. 



Nederl Ind. Valkv. pp. 8, 49, pl. 3, figs. 1, 2 (1866): Gray, Handl. B. i. p. 11 (1869): SM. 



Revue Accipitr. p. 117 (1873). 

 Aquila malayana, Less. Traite, p. 39 (1831). 

 Aquila pernigra, Hodgs. J. Ä. S. B. V, p. 227 (1836). 

 Heteropus perniger, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. XII, p. 127 (1843). 

 Nisaetus ovivorus, Jerd. Madr. Journ. XIII, p. 157 (1844). 

 Ictinaetus perniger, Blyth, Ann. N. H. XIII, p. 114 (1844). 

 Neopus perniger, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Mise. p. 81 (1844). 

 Ictinaetus malayensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. XV, p. 7 (1846). 

 Neopus malayensis, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i, p. 381 (1854): Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 65 (1862): 



Beavan, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 396, pl. XXXIV: Wall. Ibis, 1868, p. 13: Hume, Rough Notes, i, p. 



187 (1869): Waiden, Tr. Z. S. VIII, p. 34 (1872): Holdsxv. P. Z. S. 1872, p, 411: Sharpe, Cat. 



B. i, p. 257 (1874): Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. XII, p. 33 (1878). 

 a. ad. Halmahera. 



9. Haliastur f/irrenera. 



Falco ponticerianus, Shaic & Nodder, Nai. Mise. X, .p. 389 (1799). 



White-headed Rufous Eagle, Lath. Gen. Hist. i, p. 218 (1821). 



Haliaetus girrenera, Vieill. & Oud Gal. Ois i, pl. X (1825). 



Haliaetus leucosternus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 138: id. Syn. B. Ausir. iii, pl. 3, fig. 1 (1838). 



Haliastur leucosternus, Gray, Gen. B. \, p. 18 (1845): Gould, B. Austr. i, pl. 4 (c. 1845): Bp. Consp. i, p. 



15 (18.50): StricU. Orn. Syn. p. 75 (1855): Gould, Handb. B. Austr. i, p. 17 (1865): Wall. Ibis 



1868, p. 10: Gray, Handl. B. i, p. 18 (1709): Diggles, Orn. Austr. pl. 17 (1870): Waiden, Tr. Z. 



S. VIII, p. 35 (1872). 

 Ictirroaetus leucosternus, Kaup. Contr. Orn- 1852, p. 73. 

 Haliaetus indus, SM. Vog. Nederl. Ind. Valkv. p. 51, pl. 4, flg. 3 (1866). 

 Haliastur girrenera, Sharpe, Cat. B. \, p. 315. (1874): Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. VII, pp. 750, 804 



(1875), IX, p. 10 (1876), XII, p. 34 (1878). 



