. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . pi. 117 (1824). Aquila pernigra, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. v, p. 227 (1836). Heteropus perniger, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xii, p. 127. Ictinaetus ovivorus, Jerdon, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 128 (1843). Nisaetus ovivorus, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. xiii, p. 157 (1844). Ictinaetus malaiensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 7; id. Cat. p. 28; Irby, Ibis, 1861, p. malayensis, Horsf. ^ M. Cat. i, p. 381; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 65; Beavan, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 396, pi. 34; Hume, Bough Notes, p. 187 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 257 ; Fairhank, S. F. iv, p.


. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . pi. 117 (1824). Aquila pernigra, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. v, p. 227 (1836). Heteropus perniger, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. xii, p. 127. Ictinaetus ovivorus, Jerdon, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 128 (1843). Nisaetus ovivorus, Jerdon, Madr. Jour. L. S. xiii, p. 157 (1844). Ictinaetus malaiensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xv, p. 7; id. Cat. p. 28; Irby, Ibis, 1861, p. malayensis, Horsf. ^ M. Cat. i, p. 381; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 65; Beavan, P. Z. S. 1868, p. 396, pi. 34; Hume, Bough Notes, p. 187 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 257 ; Fairhank, S. F. iv, p. 253 ; Hume S)- Bourd. ibid. p. 355; Gurney, Ibis, 1877, p. 423 ; Hu7ne S^- Dav. S. F. vi, p. 11; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 198; Legge, Birds Ceyl. p. 47; Hume, Cat. no. 32 ; Butler, S. F. ix, p. 372; Davison, S. F. x, p. 335; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 190; id. in Humes N. 8f E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 145 ; Hume, 8. F. xi, p. 9; Barnes, Birds Bom. p. malaccensis, C. H. T. Marshall, Ibis, 1884, p. 407. Lahnonghong, Lepcha; Hiigong, Bhotia; Adavi nalla gedda, Fig. 87.—Left foot of /. malayensis, |. Coloration. Adult. Brownish black or black almost throughout;lores whitish ; tail-feathers, except near the tips, and inner websof quills towards the base, with mottled bars of grey above and ofwhite below; lower parts sometimes browner. Toung birds are browner, and some have the head more or lessbuff or pale tawny, especially on the sides; the feathers of thecrown, hind-neck, and sides of neck, in some, with tawny terminalspots; and the feathers of the lower parts with long drops orbroad median stripes of pale ochreous brown; in one specimenthey are ochreous with black shaft-stripes and edges. These 348 PALCONIDiE. specimens, however, appear strangely rare : out of 20 Himalayanspecimens in the British Museum only one has a spotted head andnone are striated beneath, though one from the Nilgiris shows bothmarkings. Probably the young are often similar to adults, or elsethe immature plumag


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