38. ITROAETXJS. 231 



e. Juv. St. Abyssinia. Sir W. C. Han-is [C.]. 



/. 2 juv. sk. Senafe, March 11, 1868, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



38. UEOAETUS. 



Type. 

 Uroaetus, Kaup, Classif. Sdug. u. Vog. p. 121 (1844) U. audax. 



Range. Australia and Van Diemen's Land. 



1. Uroaetus audax. 



Bold Vulture, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 10 (1801). 



Vultur audax. Lath. Ltd. Oni. Suppl. p. 2 (1801 ). 



Mountain Eagrle, Collim, N. S. W. p. .526, pi. 31 (1804). 



Aquila albirostris, VieilL X. Diet. i. p. 229 (1810) : Pu<;her. Rev. et 



Mag. de Zool. 1850, p. 81. 

 Falco fucosiis, Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. .32 (1824). 

 Aquila fucosa, Viq. Zool. Jouni. i. p. 337 (1824) ; Gould, Stjn. B. 



Austr. pt. iii. (1838) ; id. B. Audi: i. pi. 1 (1848). 

 Aquila audax, Gray, Ann. X. H. xi. p. 189 (1842) ; id. Gen. B. i. 



p. 14 (1845) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 14 (1850) ; Strickl. Om. Syn. p. 62 



(1855) ; Schl. 3Lis. P.-B. Aquihe, p. lO (1862) ;• Goidd. Handb. 



B. Austr. i. p. 8 (1865) ; Digghs, Orn. Austr. pt. xviii. (1868) : 

 ^ Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 11 (1869). 

 Uroaetus fucosus, Kaup, Classif. Sdug. u. Vog. p. 121 (1844). 

 Aquila cuneicaudata, Brehm, tsis, 1845, p. 356. 



Adult male. General colour black above and below, the wing- 

 coverts and scapulars slightly varied with a few pale brown margins 

 to the feathers, apparently disappearing with age ; head black, with 

 white bases to the feathers, causing a slightly streaked appearance ; 

 nape and hind neck bright tawny chestnut, the feathers mesiaUy 

 streaked with black ; quills black, the primaries slightly inclining 

 to pale brown at base, the secondaries also faintly mottled with 

 brown ; all the quills whitish at base of inner web, mottled with 

 brown ; upper tall-coverts paler brown, somewhat shaded with ashy, 

 and inclining to dark brown in the centre of the feather, mottled 

 with white near the base ; tail black, whitish at base of inner web, 

 with a few mottlings of the same extending up the inner web of the 

 feathers ; under surface of body black, the under tail-coverts paler 

 brown ; cere and orbits yellowish white ; bill yellowish horn-colour, 

 passing into black at tip ; feet light yeUow ; iris hazel. Total 

 length 38 inches, culmen 3, wing 24-2, tail 17-5, tarsus 4-8. 



Young. Above bright rufous fawn, the crown inclining to dark 

 brown, the neck-feathers mesiaUy streaked and tipped with fulvous, 

 the scapulars darker brown, with distinct central streaks ; least 

 wing-coverts dark brown, with whity brown margins, the median 

 coverts bright rufous fawn ; greater coverts dark brown, indistinctly 

 barred with ashy brown ; quills blackish, the secondaries indistinctly 

 barred with chocolate-brown, the innermost pale brown, mottled 

 with darker brown, the primaries externally shaded with ashy near 



