*238a. 
+*238b. Haliastur 
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Wing ad. 369-396 mm. ; tail 190-215 mm. ; 
head, neck, throat and breast white with 
distinct blackish brown shaft-stripes, nar- 
rowest and blackest in old birds; rest of 
plumage maroon chestnut, paler on tail, 
which is whitish at tip ; primaries brownish 
black ; bill yellowish, the base blackish ; 
feet light greenish yellow. 
Haliastur indus intermedius Gurney and 
Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 28. [Java.] 
Malay Brahminy Kite. 
Wing ¢ 375-398, 9 405-425 mm. ; tail 215 
mm.; the black shaft-streaks on head, 
hind neck and breast reduced to hair-lines 
and much less distinct. 
indus leucosternus (Gould), 
P.Z.S., 1837, p. 138. [Australia =Moreton 
Bay, Queensl., apud Math., type in Philad. 
Acad. } 
White-headed “* Sea-Eagle.”’ 
| =H. 1. girrenera (Vieill. et Oud.) ] 
Size similar ; wing ¢ 360-375, 2 387 mm. ; 
head, neck, interscapulary region and 
throat and breast snowy white without any 
sign of black streaks; rest of plumage 
bright maroon ; tail with a broad terminal 
bar of white; cere and bill pale yellow, 
latter darker at tip and bluish at base ; 
feet whitish yellow. 
¢*239. Haliastur sphenurus sphenurus (Vieill.). N. 
Dict. d’Hist. Nat., xx., p. 564 (1818). 
(“‘ Australia’? =N.S. Wales, apud Math., 
type in Paris Mus. } 
Whistling Eagle. 
Indo-Chinese 
Provinces, 
Malay Pen., 
Sunda Is., 
Philippine Is., 
Babber I. 
Australia, 
New Guinea, 
Moluccas, 
Tenimber, 
Ceram, Aru Is., 
Celebes, } 
Solomon Is., 
New Britain. 
Australia ; 
New Guinea. 
1 Celebes examples approach intermedius, showing a few faint indications of 
shaft-lines on chest, but in size agree with leucosternus. 
