. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . es pale and tawny, sometimes rufous ; SjPILOBNIS. 359 chin and throat more or less tinged or streaked with black or ashy;fore-neck and upper breast, as a rule, closely barred with palebrown; lower breast and abdomen, flanks, under wing-coverts,and axillaries ornamented with ocelli that are white surroundedwith dark brown, these spots passing into dark-edged cross-bars,more or less broken, on the vent, thigh-coverts, and lower tail-coverts. The variation in the coloration of the lower parts andin size is unusually great in this Eagle. I
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . es pale and tawny, sometimes rufous ; SjPILOBNIS. 359 chin and throat more or less tinged or streaked with black or ashy;fore-neck and upper breast, as a rule, closely barred with palebrown; lower breast and abdomen, flanks, under wing-coverts,and axillaries ornamented with ocelli that are white surroundedwith dark brown, these spots passing into dark-edged cross-bars,more or less broken, on the vent, thigh-coverts, and lower tail-coverts. The variation in the coloration of the lower parts andin size is unusually great in this Eagle. In young birds the crown and nape-feathers are white, withblack and brown tips; the upper plumage of various shades ofbrown, the ends of the feathers generally darker, and the basewhite, many feathers with white tips ; lower parts, including thewing-lining, white with dark shafts or shaft-stripes on the breast;the whitish bars on the wings and tail are more numerous than inadults, generally there are 2 well-marked pale bands on the tailbeyond the Fig. 90.—Head of S. chcela, f. As the bird grows older bars and ocelli appear on the lowerparts. When nearly adult, there is still much white on the wing-lining, and remains of the second pale tail-bar may often be tracedeven in full-grown birds. In the intermediate stage the chin isvery black, there are still dark shaft-stripes to the barred breast-feathers, and sometimes a few small white ocelli on the upperbreast. Bill plumbeous, bluish black at tip and on culmen ; cere, skin oflores, and gape bright, or in some dingy lemon-yellow ; iridesintense yellow ; legs and feet pale dingy yellow. Distribution. Throughout the Oriental region in suitable places,ascending the Himalayas to 4000 or 5000 feet. Very rare in thenorth-west of India, but I have seen this bird even in the Sindhills. There are several well-marked races so different in size andcoloration as to have been generally kept distinct; these are:— (1) Typical S. che
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