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195. Hieraaetus aytesi (Gurney), Ibis, 1862, 

 p. 149, pi. iv. [Natal.'] 

 Ayres's Little Eagle. 

 [ = Lophotnorchis lucani Sharpe.] 



Wing ? 405 mm. ; head with crest of 

 45 mm., black ; above sepia brown with 

 white shoulder patch ; below white, heavily 

 marked with brownish-black ; tail grey, 

 with sub-terminal band and 4 narrow bars 

 of black. 



Tropical Africa, 

 from Togoland 

 and Somaliland, 

 S. to Nyasaland, 

 Delagoa Bay 

 and Natal. 



196. Hieraaetus wahlbergi (Sundev.) OEfv. K. 

 Vet. Akad. Stockh., 1850, p. 109 (1851). 

 [Caffraria superioii propre 25"' lat.] 

 Wahlberg's Eagle. 



Wing 9 455 mm. ; head with distinct 

 occipital crest ; plumage above brown, 

 with paler margins ; tail dark brown, 

 tipped with whitish, with obsolete lighter 

 bars on inner webs of feathers ; below 

 whity brown, varied with dark brown on 

 throat and breast. 



Tropical Africa, 

 N. to Uganda 

 and Erythraea 

 on E. and 

 Portug. Guinea 

 on W. 



Gen. LI. LOPHOTRIORCHIS Sharpe (1874). 

 Type Astitr kieneri De Sparre. 



Size moderate ; head with a wedge-shaped crest. 



197. Lophoti iorchis kieneri (De Sparre), Mag. 

 Zool., 1835, Aves, pi. 35. [Himalaya, type 

 in Phil. Ac. Mus.] 

 Kiener's Crested Eagle. 



Wing ad. 352-364 mm. ; above black ; 

 cheeks, throat and breast white with black 

 shaft stripes ; below tawny rufous, with 

 black shaft stripes ; tail brownish with 

 faint black bars. 



Indian 

 Peninsula, 

 Ceylon, Indo- 

 Chinese Prov.. 

 Malay Peninsula 

 to Celebes and 

 Lesser Sunda 

 Islands. 



