114 



195, Hieraaetus ayrest (Gumey), Ibis, 1862, 

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

 Ayres's Little Eagle. 

 [ = Lophotriorchis lucani Shaxpe.] 



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 SomaUland, 

 S. to Nyasaland, 

 Delagoa Bay 

 and Natal. 



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

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

 [Caffraria superioti propre 25° lat.] 

 Wahlberg's Eagle. 



Wing ? 455 mm. ; head with distinct 

 occipital crest ; plumage above brown, 

 with paler margins ; tail dark brown, 

 tipped with whitish, with obsolete hghter 

 bars on inner webs of feathers ; below 

 whity brown, varied with dark brown on 

 throat and breast. 



Tropical Africa, 

 N. to Uganda 

 and Er5H:hraea 

 on E. and 

 Portug. Guinea 

 onW. 



Gen. LI. LOPHOTRIORCHIS Sharpe (1874). 

 Type Astur kieneri De Sparre. 



Size moderate ; head with a wedge-shaped crest. 



197. Lophotiiorchis 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. 



