ACCIPITRES. 
FALCONIM. 
AQUILINE. 
Genus LOPHOTEIOECHIS. 
Bill curved more suddenly from the base than in Nisaetus, less stout, and with the tip not 
so prolonged ; margin not prominently festooned. Nostrils circular, rather small, and placed near 
the edge of the cere. Wings moderate, reaching, when closed, beyond the middle of the tail ; 
the 4th and 5th quills subequal and longest, or the 5th shorter than the 4th. Tail moderate, 
broad at the base, rounded at the tip. Tarsus as in Nisaetus ; middle toe long, with the claw 
rather short ; lateral toes nearly equal, hut with the inner claw nearly as long as the hind one. 
Head crested ; the feathers short, broad at the base, and pointed at the tip, forming a wedge- 
shaped crest, which originates above the occiput. 
LOPHOTEIOECHIS KIENEEI. 
(THE EUFOUS-BELLIED HAWK-EAGLE.) 
Astur Jcieneri, G. S. *, Mag. Zool. 1835 (Aves), pi. 35. 
Sjpizaeius albogidaris, Tickell, J. A. S. B. xi. p. 456 (1842). 
Limnaetus Jcieneri, Strickland, Ann. N. H. xiii. p. 38 (1844); Jerdon, B. of Ind. i. p. 74; 
Bligh, J. A. S. (C. B.) p. 64 (first record from Ceylon) ; Legge, Str. Feath. 1875, p. 198 ; 
Gurney, Ibis, 1877, p. 433. 
Spizaetiis Jcieneri , Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 33 (1845); Schl. Mus. P.-B. Astur es, p. 11; Wall. 
Ibis, 1868, p. 14; Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 216; Hume, Str. Feath. i. p. 310 (1873). 
Nisaetus Jcieneri, Jerd. 111. Ind. Orn. p. 5 (1847). 
LopJiotriorcJiis Jcieneri, Sharpe, Cat. Birds, i. p. 255 (1874). 
Adult male. Length to front of cere 19'5 to 20-5 inches ; cnlmen from cere 1-0 to IT ; wing 1 4 2 to 15-5 ; tail 8-2 to 
9-0 ; tarsus 2-7 to 3’0 ; mid toe 2-0 to 2T5, its claw (straight) 0-85 to l'l ; inner claw (straight) 1-3 ; height of bill 
at cere 0-5 to 0-55. Expanse (of one with wing of 14‘5) 45 - 0 ; weight of the same 1 § lb. 
A great disparity in size exists betwen the sexes in this species, but males also differ much inter se in this respect. 
The above dimensions are taken from a fair series of Indian, Ceylonese, and Malaccan examples. The wings of 
four Ceylonese males examined measure 14-2, 14-5, 13-5, and 15-0. 
Adult female. Erom Mr. Hume’s Darjiling specimens (‘ Stray Feathers,’ vol. i. p. 311). Length 24-0 to 29-0 inches ; 
* The article here referred to merely has these initials appended to it, and some doubt exists as to whether they 
refer to G. Sparre or Geoffroy St.-Hila.ire. Mr. Sharpe has adopted the latter in his ‘ Catalogue of the Accipitres.’ I 
observe that, throughout the ‘Mag. Zool.,’ St.-Hilaire either signs his name in full or uses the abbreviation “ Geoffroy 
St.-IL and I think there is no reason to infer that had he been the author of the two descriptive articles ( Astur l-ieneri 
and Pica mystacalis ) in the volume for 1835, which are signed “ G. S.,” he would have used these initials instead of his 
usual signature. In the Eoy. Soc. Catalogue, vol. v., these two identical articles are referred to as written by G. Sparre ; 
and, in all probability, this is the correct determination of their authorship. 
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