39. AQuiLA. 235 



Aquila vulturina, Smith, S.-Afr. Q. Journ. i. p. 112 (1830, nee Daud.) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. KJ (1845) ; id. Cat. Accipitr. 1848, p. 12 ; Bj). 



Comp. i. p. 14 (1850) ; Strickl. Or?i. Syti. p. (>3 (1855) ; Schl. Mus. 



P.-B. Aquilfe, p. 9 (1862) ; Heiujl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 49 (1869) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 11 (1869); Guniey, Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. 



p. 5 (1872). 

 Aquila nigra, Jaines, 3fein. Wern. Soc. vii. p. 48.3 (1835). 

 Pteroaetus verreaiixii, Kaup, Classif. Hduy. u. Voy. p. 120 (1844). 

 Pteroaetus vulturina, Kaup, Contr. Orti. 1850, p. 09. 

 Aquila leucoprymna, Lichf. Nomencl. p. 397 (1854). 



Young male. General colour clear fawn-colour both above and 

 below, paler and more fulvescent on the sides of face, throat, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts ; some of the scapular feathers with margins 

 of dark brown, appearing slightly streaked ; least wing-coverts uni- 

 form fawn-colour, the median series pale brown at base with fawn- 

 coloured tips, the greater and primary coverts, as well as secondaries, 

 blackish brown, broadly tipped with fawn-colour ; the primaries 

 entirely blackish ; lower surface of wing ashy brown, inclining to deep 

 brown towards tips of primaries ; lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts uniform pale fawn-colour ; tail brown, tipped with huffy 

 fawn-colour ; under wing-coverts uniform fawn like the breast, the 

 lower series ashy brown like the wing-Uning. Total length 36 inches, 

 wing 25'2.5, tail 15, tarsus 4-6. 



Adult female. Entirely black both above and below ; back and 

 rump white, as also some of the scapulars, the whole of which are 

 white at their bases ; upper taU-coverts also pure white, excepting 

 the lowest ones, which are black ; tail entirely black, with faint in- 

 dications of five or six brown bars on the basal half; quills blackish, 

 the primaries externally shaded with ashy grey, and conspicuously 

 mottled with pale brown near the base, the primary coverts similarly 

 marked, the secondaries also with slight indications of pale brown 

 bars on inner web ; cere and orbits yellow ; bill leaden horn-colour ; 

 feet yeUow ; iris pale umber-brown. Total length 37 inches, culmen 

 3-2, wing 26-2, tail 13-5, tarsus 4-2. 



Hab. South Africa and N.E. Africa. 



Sir A. Smith f 0.1. 



[P.]. 



2. Aquila chrysaetus. 



White-tailed Eagle, Edwards, N. II. Birds, pi. 1 (1743). 



L'Aigle, Briss. Orn. i. p. 419 (1760). 



L'Aigle Wane, Briss. t. c. p. 424 (1760, var.). 



L'Aigle dore, Briss. t. c. p. 431 (1760). 



L'Aigle noir, Briss. t. c. p. 4."34 (1760). 



L'Aigle commun, Buff. PI. Enl. 409. 



Le Grand Aigle, Buff. PI. Enl 410. 



Falco chrysaetus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 125 (1766) ; I err. Brit. B. i. p. 7 



(1841); Kaum. J'oV/. J5«/fef/i/. xiii. Taf 339 (18(30). 

 Falco fulvus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 125 (1766) ; Wils. Am. Orn. vii. pi. 55. 



iig. 1 (1813) ; Naum. V. B. i. p. 208, Taf. 8, 9 (1822) ; Werner, 



