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quills, which are barred with blackish, the 

 secondaries also with broad subterminal 

 band ; tail ashy brown, tipped with white, 

 and with 4 black ban(k ; throat and chest 

 fulvous brown ; below white, barred with 

 dark brown. 



219. Circaetus cinerascens J. V. von Miill., 

 Naum. 1851, heft iv., p. 27. [Sennar, Egyj^. 

 Sudan.] 

 Cinereous Snake-Eagle. 



Size similai, wing <J 380, ? 407 mm. ; above 

 grey ; tail whitish, shaded and tipped with 

 pale brown, and with broad blackish sub- 

 terminal band and 2 narrower bands near 

 base ; below ashy brown, shaded with grey, 

 the abdomen and thighs barred with white. 



Tropical Africa 

 from Sudan and 

 Portug. Guinea 

 to the Zambesi. 



Gen. LXI. SPILORNIS Gray (1840). 



Type by orig. desig. Falco hacha Daud. [err.] =S. cheela malayensis 



Swann. 



Crest feathers of head rounded, not lanceolate ; 

 face bare with only a few short bristles ; size 

 variable, length 30 in. to 18 in. 



*220. Spilornis cheela cheela (Lath.), Ind. Orn., i., 

 p. 14 (1790). [" India " =Lucknow, apud 

 W. L. Sclat.] 

 Crested Serpent Eagle. 



Wing ? (ffimalayas), 495-532, c? 500-510 

 mm. ; wings reaching beyond median 

 pale band on tail ; above purplish brown ; 

 head and crest black with white bases ; 

 wing-coverts with small spots of white ; 

 secondaries broadly and upper tail-coverts 

 narrowly tipped with wMte ; tail black 

 with very broad median band of broymish 



Himalayas 

 (Kashmir to 

 Nepal) ; 

 in winter to 

 N. India. 



