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Wing ad. 369-396 mm. ; tail 190-215 mm. ; 

 head, neck, throat and breast white with 

 distinct blackish brown shaft-stripes, nar- 

 rowest and blackest in old birds ; rest of 

 plumage maroon chestnut, paler on tail, 

 which is whitish at tip ; primaries brownish 

 black ; bill yellowish, the base blackish ; 

 feet light greenish yellow. 



*238a. Haliastur indus intermedins Gurney and 

 Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 28. [Java.] 

 Malay Brahminy Kite. 



Wing (J 375-398, $ 405-425 mm. ; tail 215 

 mm. ; the black shaft-streaks on head, 

 hind neck and breast reduced to hair-lines 

 and much less distinct. 



Indo-Chinese 

 Provinces, 

 Malay Pen., 

 Sunda Is., 

 Philippine Is. 

 Babber I. 



j*238b. Haliastur mdus Leucosternus (Gould), 

 P.Z.S., 1837, p. 138. [Australia =Moteton 

 Bay, Queensl., apud Math., type in Philad. 

 Acad.] 



White-headed " Sea- Eagle." 

 [ =H. i. girrenera (Vieill. et Oud.)] 



Size similar ; wing ^ 360-375, ? 387 mm. ; 

 head, neck, interscapulary region and 

 throat and breast snowy white without any 

 sign of black streaks ; rest of plumage 

 bright maroon ; tail with a broad terminal 

 bar of white ; cere and bill pale yellow, 

 latter darker at tip and bluish at base ; 

 feet whitish yellow. 



AustraUa, 

 New Guinea, 

 Moluccas, 

 Tenimber, 

 Ceram, Aru Is. 

 Celebes, ^ 

 Solomon Is., 

 New Britain. 



1*239. Haliastur sphenurus sphenurus (Vieill.). N. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xx., p. 564 (1818). 

 [^' Australia" =N.S. Wales, apud Math., 

 type in Paris Mus.] 

 Whisthng Eagle. 



Australia ; 

 New Guinea. 



1 Celebes examples approach intermedins, showing a few faint indications of 

 shaft-lines on chest, but in size agree with leucosternus. 



