AQuiLiisr^. 75 



Museum of the Asiatic Society at Calcutta. The original specimen 

 described by De Sparre came from the Himalayas. 



Other species of this genus are L. cah'qatus, Horsf., of "svliich 

 Blyth's Spiz. alboniger is a younger state. This is a very beautiful, 

 small, but typical species, approaching Sp. Kienevii. A dark race 

 from Malacca, of an uniform dusky black color, exists in the Museum 

 of the Asiatic Society, resemblino- the dark state of limncetus, but 

 with a stroncrer bill. 



Major Pearse informs me that one of these crested Eagles is 

 very rarely procured from the IST. AY. Himalayas, and trained for 

 hunting, and is known as the Shali-haz, as indeed L. cristatellus 

 was called by Meer sliikars in the South. He had one himself, 

 which died just as its education was finished. 



Various crested Eagles are fou.nd both in Africa and South 

 America, but they belong to slightly different types. A crested Eagle 

 from Africa, in the Museum of the Asiatic Society, has the bill 

 straighter, longer, and more feeble, the lateral toes nearly equal, 

 and the feet altogether much weaker, and certainly belongs to a 

 different genus, Lophaetus, Kaup. The American Crested Eagles 

 are placed by Gray in two genera, Spizaetiis, and Pternura, Kaup. 

 The genus Jlorplums, often placed among these Hawk-Eagles, has 

 the toes very feeble ; and I do not think that it enters this division. 



The remaining Eagles differ from the foregoing ones in not havino- 

 the tarsus feathered. There are two very distinct forms, the 

 Serpent Eagles, and the Sea Eagles., 



4tli. — Serpent Eagles. 



Gen. CiECAETUS, Vieillot. 



Char. — Bill rather short, gently curving from the base, much 

 hooked at the tip, cuhnen rounded, compressed at the sides com- 

 missure nearly straight; nostrils oval, oblique; wings lono-, the 3rd 

 longest, or 2nd and 3rd sub-equal, 4th nearly as lono- ; the first 

 three quills emarginate ; tail long, nearly even ; tarsi long, plumed 

 below the heel, clad with small hexagonal scales ; feet small toes 



