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FALC0NIDJ3. 



Hah. South-eastern Europe, N.W. India, and the Himalayas, 

 extending into Eastern Siberia. 



a. c? jiiv. sk. Sarepta, Sept. 1872. Baron A. von Iliigel. 



b, c. J ad. sk. Southern Ural. Dr. Strader [C.]. 

 (/. e. 2 ad. sk. Southern Ural. Dr. Strader [C.J. 

 f. Juv. St. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 

 <■/, h. Ad. sk. Nepaul. B. H. Hodgson. Esq. 

 ». Ad. St. India. Purchased. 



m. 



6. Aquila rapax. 



Falco rapax, Temm. PI. Col. i. pi. 465 (1828). 



Aquila senegala, Cuv. Begne An. i. p. 326 (1829) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 

 p. 13 (1845); Pucker. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1850," pp. 4, 208; 

 Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 3 (1857) ; Layard, B. of S. Afr. p. 10 

 (1867). 



Aquila naevioides, Cuv. B'eqne An. i. p. 326 (1829) ; Gray, Gm. B. 

 i. p. 13 (1845) ; Pucker. 'Rev. et Mug. de Zool. 1850, p. 5 ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 14; Strickl. Orn. Sgn. p. 59 (1855); Pelz. Verk. z.-b. 

 Wien, 1862, p. 158 : Sckl. 3Itts. P.-B. Aquilae, p. 3 (1862); Lilford, 

 Ibis, 1865, p. 172, pi. 5 ; Locke, E.rpl. 'Sci. Alger, i. p. 25 (1867) ; 

 Degl. et Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 30 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 10 

 (1869); Anders. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 687; SkeJley, B. Egypt, p. 205 

 (1872) ; Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 6 (1872). 



Aquila choka, Smith, S.-Afr. Q. Journ. i. p. 114 (1830). 



Aquila rapax, ie,«. Traite, p. 37 (1831); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. 

 p. 45 (1869) ; Blanf. Geol. S,- Zool. Abyss, p. 295 (1870) ; Finsck, 

 Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 201 (1870) ; id. u. Hartl. Voq. Osfafr. p. 44 (1870). 



Aquila vulturina, Benn. Gard. Z. S. ii. p. 288 (1831). 



Aquila albicans, Riipp. N. Wirb. p. 34, pi. 13 (1835). 



Falco belisarius, Levaill. Expl. Sci. Alger. Ois. pi. 2 (1850). 



Aquila raptor, A. Brehm, Nnttm. 1855, pp. 13, 267. 



Aquila variegata, C. L. Brekm, Naum. t. c. p. 267. 



Aquila substriata, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 6 (1856). 



Aquila isabellina, Heugl. t. c. p. 6 (1856). 



Aquila lestris, L. Brekm, Ber. Orn. Vers. Stidtg. 1860, p. 55. 



Young. Above light tawny, rather paler and more ashy on the 

 lesser wing-coverts and scapulars ; the median coverts ashy brown 

 at base, with tawny ends ; greater and primary coverts, as well as 

 secondaries, chocolate-brown, with tawny tips to the feathers, which 

 are subterminally shaded with ashy ; primaries blackish, shaded 

 near the base with clear ashy, the under surface of the wing uni- 

 form ashy brown, the primaries gradually chocolate-brown towards 

 tips, the secondaries tipped with fulvous ; lower back and rump 

 tawny, the upper tail-coverts paler and more fulvous ; tail uniform 

 brown, shaded with ashy, and broadly tipped with fulvous ; entire 

 under surface of body light tawny, paler on the throat, legs, and 

 under tail-coverts, the breast-feathers having a slight ashy shade ; 

 under wing-coverts also paler, the lower series ashy brown, like the 

 wing-lining ; cere and gape yellow ; bill dark horn-colour, livid at 

 base, the under mandible yellow ; iris pale yellow, freckled with 

 brown, with a narrow exterior edging of dark brown. Total length 

 28 inches, culmen 2-2, wing 20, tail 10-5, tarsus 3-4. 



