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Wing ? 560 mm. ; above black ; wings 

 brown ; quills shaded with pale ashy grey, 

 and with broad sub-terminal band of black ; 

 tail with 2 broad bands of ashy grey and 

 remains of a third ; throat black ; below 

 yellowish buff, broadly banded with back, 

 chest almost uniform ; under wing-coverts 

 chestnut. Immature above brown with 

 indistinct darker bands and whitish mar- 

 gins ; tail with 3 lighter bands ; below 

 white. 



205. Spizaetus nipalensis nipalensis (Hodgs.) 

 Jnl. As. Soc. Beng., v., p. 229 (1836). 

 {Nepal.'] 

 Himalayan Hawk-Eagle. 



Smaller ; Wing ^ 450-460, ? 485-495 mm. ; 

 crest 70 mm. ; above blackish brown, with 

 paler margins, especially on head and hind 

 neck ; wings paler, banded with dark 

 brown ; tail ashy brown with 4 blackish 

 brown bands ; throat white, with black 

 central stripe ; chest fawn with black shaft- 

 streaks ; below brown spotted and barred 

 with white. Immature : head and neck 

 white with dark centres to feathers ; tail 

 with 6 darker bands ; below white, slightly 

 •streaked with dark brown ; flanks brown. 



Himalayas, 

 E. to Assam ; 

 S. in winter to 

 plains of India 

 and Malay 

 Peninsula. 



■i'205a. Spizaetus nipalensis kelaarti Legge, Ibis, Ceylon. 

 1878, p. 202. [Ceylon.] 

 Mountain Hawk-Eagle. 



Wing 468-473 mm. ; with the white bands 

 below broader and more regular. 



