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quills, which are barred with blackish, the 

 secondaries alsO' with broad subterminal 

 band ; tail ashy brown, tipped with white, 

 and with 4 black bands ; throat and chest 

 fulvous brown ; below white, barred with 

 dark brown. 



219. Circaetus cinerascens J. V. von Miill., Tropical Africa 



Naum. 1851, heft iv., p. 27. [Sennar, Egypt, from Sudan and 



Sudan.] Portug. Guinea 



Cinereous Snake- Eagle. to the Zambesi. 



Size similar, wing (J 380, ? 407 mm. ; above 

 grey ; tail whitish, shaded and tipped with 

 pale brown, and with broad blackish sub- 

 terminal band and 2 narrower bands near 

 base ; below ashy brown, shaded with grey, 

 the abdomen and thighs barred with white. 



Gen. LXI. SPILORNIS Gray (1840). 



Type by orig. desig. Falco bacha Daud. [err.] =S. cheela malayensis 



Swann. 



Crest feathers of head rounded, not lanceolate ; 

 face bare with only a few short bristles ; size 

 variable, length 30 in. to 18 in. 



*220. Spilornis cheela cheela (Lath.), Ind. Orn., i., 

 p. 14 (1790). [" India " =Lucknow, apud 

 W. L. Sclat.] 

 Crested Serpent Eagle. 



Wing ? (Himalayas), 495-532, ^, 500-510 

 mm. ■; wings reaching beyond median 

 pale band on tail ; above purpUsh brown ; 

 head and crest black with white bases ; 

 wing-coverts with small spots of white ; 

 secondaries broadly and upper tail-coverts 

 narrowly tipped with white ; tail black 

 with very broad median band of brownish 



Himalayas 

 (Kashmir to 

 Nepal) ; 

 in winter to 

 N. India. 



