. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 326 FALCONID^. feathers of the upper surface broadly tipped with whitish ; the under surface deep rufous brown, all the feathers broadly streaked down the centre with cream-colour; the tail less distinctly barred above than the adult, but much more plainly and numerously under- neath ; cere greenish grey; feet very pale greenish grey ; iris brown. Hah. Indian peninsula and the Himalayas, a. Juv. St. India. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. h. Ad. St. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. c. Ad. sk. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. d. Juv. sk. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgs
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 326 FALCONID^. feathers of the upper surface broadly tipped with whitish ; the under surface deep rufous brown, all the feathers broadly streaked down the centre with cream-colour; the tail less distinctly barred above than the adult, but much more plainly and numerously under- neath ; cere greenish grey; feet very pale greenish grey ; iris brown. Hah. Indian peninsula and the Himalayas, a. Juv. St. India. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. h. Ad. St. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. c. Ad. sk. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. d. Juv. sk. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. e. Sternum. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P. 59. LOPHOICTINIA. Lophoictinia, Kemp, Isis, 1847, p. 117 Type. L. Range. Australia. Head of Lophoictinia isura. 1. Lophoictinia isura. Milvus isurus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 140; id. Syn. B. Austr. pt. iii. () ; Gray, Gm. B. i. p. 24 (1845) ; Goidd, B. Austr. i. pi. 22 (1848); Bp. Consp. i. p. 21 (1850); ScM. Mus. Milvi, p. 4 (1862) ; Gmdd, Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 51 (1865) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 27 (1869). Lophoictinia isura, Kaup, Isis, 1847, p. 117. Milvus pacificus, Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 135 (1855). Adult. Above blackish brown, the median and greater coverts paler brown, slightly washed with rufous, dark brown in the centre of the feathers; primary coverts dark brown, banded with blackish; primaries dark brown, externally shaded with grey, the secondaries rather paler, all the feathers banded with black, the subterminal band very broad; lower surface of the wing ashy grey, white at the base of quills, distinctly banded with blackish; tail dark brown, shaded with ashy above and slightly tipped with whitish, banded with black, the subterminal bar broadest; head distinctly crested, dark rufous, streaked with black down the centre of the feathers; forehead, lores, fore part of cheeks, and throat whitish, with narrow blackish shaft-stripes ; ear-coverts grey; under siirface of the body rufous, the sides of the
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