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whole tail black with median brownish 

 white band (17-25 mm.) ; cheeks, throat 

 and chest blackish brown, the latter barred 

 with rufous ; below rufous brown with 

 rounded white spots and indistinct black 

 bars ; under wing-coverts rufous brown, 

 spotted with white ; primaries above and 

 below black, with one greyish median band 

 (20-30 mm. wide).^ 



*225. Spilornis rufipectus rufipectus Gould, P.Z.S., Celebes. 

 1857, p. 222. [Macassar, type in Brit. 

 Mus.] 

 Celebes Serpent-Eagle. 



Wing (J 335-340, ? 345-355 mm. ; head 

 black ; above purplish brown, upper tcdl- 

 coverts tipped with white ; wing quills 

 with broad subterminal band of purpUsh 

 brown and banded with dark brown below ; 

 tail tipped with white and with broad 

 blackish subterminal band and 2 less dis- 

 tinct ones nearer base, the basal pale bands 

 brown and apical whitish ; face and throat 

 slaty black ; chest uniform dull rufous ; 

 below deeper brown with large spots and 

 bars of white. 



225a. Spilornis rufipectus raja Sharpe, Bull. Borneo 



B.O.C., i., p. Iv. (1893). [Kuching, type in (Sarawak). 



Brit. Mus.] 



Sharpe's Serpent-Eagle. 



Smaller ; wing (nearly ad.) 309 mm. ; more 

 closely banded and spotted below. 



^ One other form of Spilornis, S. asturinus Meyer (S. B. Nat. Ges., Isis, Dresden, 

 p. 13, 1884, Patr. ign.) I do not know the relations or distribution of, and so cannot 

 place it. 



