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usually showing 2 distinct black median 

 bands, the terminal one narrower and often 

 broken ; under wing-coverts rufous brown 

 spotted with white, the greater ones ashy. 



*220b. Spilornis cheela spilogaster (Blyth), Jnl. As. 

 Soc. Beng., xxi., p. 351 (1852). [Ceylon.] 

 Ceylon Serpent-Eagle. 



Slightly smaller, and wings shorter ; wing <? 

 370-375 mm. ; throat and cheeks and ear- 

 coverts ashy brown ; tail as in S. c. albidus ; ■ 

 chest and upper breast always uniform 

 darker brown in adults ; primaries below 

 with only one blackish median band. 



Ceylon. 



*220c. Spilornis cheela burmanicus Swann, Syn. 

 List. Accipitr., p. 81 (1920). \Jobin, Thayet- 

 myo, Burma, type in coll. H. Kirke Swann ; 

 and examples in coll. Brit. Mus.J 

 Burmese Serpent-Eagle. 



Wing (? 430-455, ? 436-462 mm. ; larger 

 and much paler above and below ; with the 

 hind cheeks and ear-coverts ashy ; throat 

 as pale as chest, but tinged with ashy and, 

 like chest, finely vermiculated ; white spots 

 below rounded and less distinct, the darker 

 margins much paler ; primaries below as in 

 S. c. cheela, but black terminal band not 

 more than 75 mm. wide ; under wing- 

 coverts rufous with white spots, the outer 

 edge white. 



Burma, N. to 

 Upper Burma 

 and Shan States 

 S. to Tavoy, at 

 least, in 

 Tenasserim ; 

 Siam (Gylden- 

 stolpe) 



220d. Spilornis cheela rutherfordi Swinh., Ibis, 

 1870, p. 85. [Central Hainan.] 

 Hainan Serpent-Eagle. 



Smaller ; wing (ex. from Hainan, Tring 

 Mus.) 405-430, ? 393-411 mm.; throat 

 slaty brown to dusky. 



Hainan I. ; 

 French Indo 

 China. 



