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the head is somewhat shaded with reddish, and the 

 edges of the feathers (which are white at the base) 

 are also the same : the tip of the tail-feather is rather 

 of a paler hue than the rest of the plumage : the cere 

 is yellowish, the beak black, and the feet bluish. 



Found by my friend, Dr. Horsfield, on one of the 

 extensive lakes formed during the rainy season, in the 

 southern parts of Java : said by him to subsist on fishes. 



Sp. 10. Mo: niveus. 



Mo? albus corpora supra, alls caudaque Jiiscis ', rectricibus fasciis 



apiceque brunneis. 

 White Morphnus with the body above, wings and tail fuscous, the 



latter with its tip and fasciae brown. 

 Falco niveus. Temm. PL Col. 127. 



Inhabits Java. Length two feet one inch : the 

 top of the head, the neck, tarsi, and all the under 

 parts of the plumage, white : back and wings clothed 

 with feathers, which are white at their origin, brown 

 towards the tip, and white at the tip ; the secondaries 

 are outwardly deep brown, and whitish, with brown 

 bars on their inner webs ; the base of the quills is 

 white, the rest dusky : the tail feathers, with the ex- 

 ception of the two middle, are whitish on the edges 

 of their inner webs, and bright brown on the other 

 parts ; of which last colour the two middle feathers 

 are composed ; all of them ^are transversely banded 

 with deeper brown ; most distinctly so on the under 

 part ; and towards their tips is a much broader band ; 

 their tips are white j feet yellow. The old birds be- 

 come much whiter in plumage. 



Very similar to the preceding species, and, like it, 

 feeds on fishes, living at the borders of lakes. 



