143 



t*231. Cuncuma leucogaster (Gmel.), S.N., i., p. 257 

 (1788). [ex. Lath.^type loc. N.S. Wales, 

 apud Math.] 

 White-bellied Sea-Eagle. 



Wing S 565, ? 590 mm. ; entire under parts 

 as well as head and neck, white ; above 

 ashy grey, shaded with brownish ; prima- 

 ries blackish ; tail black for basal two- 

 thirds, terminal third white. Immature : 

 whole plumage brown with whitish shaft- 

 streaks ; quills and tail barred with darker 

 brown. 



Indian 

 Peninsula, 

 Ceylon, Indo- 

 Chinese Pro vs., 

 S.E. China, 

 Malay Pen. 

 & Ajchipelago, 

 Australia, 

 Oceania. 



t232. Cuncuma leucorypha (Pall.),Reise d. v.Prov. 

 Russ. Reichs, i., p. 454 (1771). ["laikumin 

 Ausiralioribus " =Lower Ural River, apud 

 W. L. Sclat.] 

 Pallas's Sea-Eagle. 



Wing <J 563-573, ? 600-618 mm. ; above 

 dark brown, more tawny on hind neck and 

 sandy on head ; rump purpUsh brown ; 

 tail white, with base and broad terminal 

 band black ; face and throat huffish white ; 

 below fulvous brown, with pale centres to 

 chest feathers. 



S.E. Russia, 

 Asia Minor, 

 Caspian, and 

 Central Asia to 

 Mongoha ; 

 India, Burma ; 

 Malay Pen., 

 Borneo. 



*233. Cuncuma vocifer (Daud.), Traite, ii., p. 65 

 (1800). [ex. Levaill. — Keurboom R., Cape 

 Col.} 

 Vociferous Sea-Eagle. 



Wing <J 485-500, ? 520-545 mm. ; head, 

 neck, breast, interscapulary region and 

 tail pure white ; least wing-coverts rufous ; 

 primaries black ; rest of surface upper 

 blackish brown, and of lower surface deep 

 chestnut. 



Tropical Africa, 

 from Senegal 

 and Sudan, S. to 

 Cape Colony. 



