143 



1*231. Cuncuma leucogaster (Gmel.), S.N., i., p. 257 

 (1788). [ex. Lath.v-type loc. N.S. Wales, 

 apud Math.] 

 White-bellied Sea-Eagle. 



Wing c? 565, $ 590 mm. ; entire under parts 

 as well as head and neck, white ; above 

 ashy grey, shaded with brownish ; prima- 

 ries blackish ; tail black for basal two- 

 thirds, terminal third white. Immature : 

 whole plumage brown with whitish shaft- 

 streaks ; quills and tail barred with darker 

 brown. 



Indian 

 Peninsula, 

 Ceylon, Indo- 

 Chinese Pro vs., 

 S.E. China, 

 Malay Pen. 

 & Archipelago, 

 Australia, 

 Oceania. 



■j"232. Cuncuma leucorypha (Pall.),Reise d. v.Prov. 

 Russ. Reichs, i., p. 454 (1771). \^' laikumin 

 Australioribus " = Lower Ural River, apud 

 W. L. Sclat.] 

 Pallas 's Sea-Eagle. 



Wing <J 563-573, ? 600-618 mm. ; above 

 dark brown, more tawny on hind neck and 

 sandy on head ; rump purplish brown ; 

 tail white, with base and broad terminal 

 band black ; face and throat bufhsh white ; 

 below fulvous brown, with pale centres to 

 chest feathers. 



S.E. Russia, 

 Asia Minor, 

 Caspian, and 

 Central Asia to 

 MongoUa ; 

 India, Burma ; 

 Malay Pen., 

 Borneo. 



*233. Cuncuma vocifer (Daud.), Traite, ii., p. 65 Tropical Africa, 



(1800). [ex. LevaiU. — Keurboom R., Cape from Senegal 



Col.'\ and Sudan, S. to 



Vociferous Sea-Eagle. Cape Colony. 



Wing c? 485-500, ? 520-545 mm. ; head, 

 neck, breast, interscapulary region and 

 tail pure white ; least wing-coverts rufous ; 

 primaries black ; rest of surface upper 

 blackish brown, and of lower surface deep 

 chestnut. 



