240 FALCONID^. 



Aquila adalberti minor, Brehm, I. c. (1860). 



Aquila heliaca, Socage, Instruc. prat. Prod. Zool. p. 76 (1862) ; Lil~ 



ford, Ibis, 1865, p. 171. 

 Aquila imperialis, Saunders, Ibis, 1870, p. 61. 

 Aquila leucolena, Dresser, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 864. 

 Aquila adalberti. Dresser, B. Eur. part xviii. (1873). 



Adult female. Crown of head black, the eyebrow, sides of face, 

 hinder part and sides of neck sandy brown, inclining to tawny 

 brown on the bases of some of the feathers ; general colour of upper 

 surface black, the feathers of the upper interscapulary region mar- 

 gined with dark brown, a few with whity brown ; wings blackish, 

 some of the innermost secondaries brown, and marbled with whity 

 brown on the outer web, the wing-coverts also a little browner than 

 the back, all those running right along the edge of the wing from 

 the carpus thus forming a continuous shoulder-patch; some of the 

 iipper scapulars pure white, continuous Avith the white shoulder ; 

 quills black, primaries externally brownish, the secondaries rather 

 browner ; lower surface of the wing ashy brown, the outer prima- 

 ries slightly marbled with whitish near the base ; upper tail-coverts 

 slightly tipped with buffy whitish ; basal two thirds of tail ashy 

 grey, more or less mottled with brown, the terminal third blackish 

 brown, with a narrow whity brown tip, the lower surface of the 

 tail much paler than the upper, the basal part ashy white, strongly 

 mottled with brown ; entire under surface of body blackish, the 

 chest-feathers slightly inclining to brown, those on the lower tarsus 

 whity brown ; under tail-coverts fulvescent at base ; cere and gape 

 waxy yeUow ; biU bluish horn-colour ; feet yellow ; iris light 

 brownish grey. Total length 32 inches, culmen 2-9, wing 23-1, 

 tail 12-75, tarsus 3-9. 



Young female. General colour light fawn-colour, the head, sca- 

 pulars, some of the dorsal feathers, and the greater wing-eoverts in- 

 clining to bright tawny ; upper tail-coverts pale fulvous, lighter 

 than the rest of the back ; outer greater coverts ashy brown, with 

 broad whitish margins ; primary coverts dark brown, tipped with 

 pale brown; quills black, the secondaries browner, externally 

 shaded with ashy grey, and terminally margined with buffy white, 

 the innermost inclining to pale brown, like the back ; tail uniform 

 brown, tipped with fulvous, the centre feathers shaded with ashy ; 

 under surface of body rich fawn, rather paler on the abdomen, 

 thighs, and leg-feathers. Total length 34 inches, wing 24-5, tail 

 13-5, tarsus 4. 



Hah. Spain and N.W. Africa. 



a. 9 ad. sk. Seville {Ruiz). Purchased. 



b. $ juv. sk. SevUle {Ruiz). Purchased. 



c. Juv. st. S. Europe. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



5. Aquila mogilnik. 



Aquila mogilnik, Gm. N. Comm. Petrop. xv. p. 445, pi. xi. b (1770). 

 Ptussian Eagle, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 43 (1781). 

 Falco mogilnik, Gm. 8. N. i. p. 259 (1788). 



