68 



A\'Ji)<i; $ IS. 3 in. ; nhovc hlHckisIi-browu, 

 mottled with white ; below purer white 

 .streaked with black on breast, and with large 

 spots on under tail -coverts ; under wing- 

 coverts black. 

 186b. Hieraaetus fascial IIS spilogaster (Bp.), Rev. et 

 Mag. Zool., 1850. ]). 487 [Abyssinia, ex Dii 

 Bus. jM.S.I 

 African Hawk-Eagle. 



Tropical 

 i\frica ; rare 

 in S. Alrica. 



187. 



Smaller; wing $ 16.5, o 14.0 : above brown, 

 head and neck isabelline : tail with obsolete 

 darker bars on outer feathers ; beloAv Avhite, 

 throat and breast washed with fawn and 

 streaked with reddish brown or blackish ; 

 species subject to variatioii ; j-ounger birds 

 dull brown below with black shaft-stripes, 

 and a white shoulder patch. 

 Hieraaetus pemiatus (Gmel.). S.N.. i.. n. 272 

 (1788) [ex Brisson, I.e.]. 

 Booted Eagle. 



S. Europe 

 (Spain to 

 Russia) ; 

 Africa, 0. 

 Asia, India 

 Cevlon. 



S. 



188. 



Smaller, and with a short occipital crest ; 

 length ad. 21.5 in. , wing 15 in. ; above 

 bro^\n, croAvn darker ; cre.st, neck and under- 

 surface rufous, with black shaft -streaks ; tail 

 mottled greyish -brown, with 7 or 8 dark 

 broAvn bars. 



Hieraaeius morphnoides morphnoides (Gould), 

 P.Z.S., 1840, ]i. 161 (1841). [Upper Hmifer, 

 N.S.W.] 

 Little Eagl(\ 



E. and W. 



Australia. 



Below heavily strii'jed with dark browii. 

 189. Hieraaetus weiskei Reichenow, Orn. jM.B. 

 viii., p. 185 (1900). [Astrolabe Mtns.] 

 Now Guiiiea Little Eagle. 



S.E. New 

 Guinea. 



Below pale isabelline : tail whh 7 dark bauds. 

 190. Hieraaetus ayresi Gurney. Ibis. 1862. p. 149, Tropical 



pi. iv. [Natal.] Africa to S. 



Ayres' Little Eagle [=LopJiotri orchis Ivcani Africa. 

 Sharpe.] 



