39. AftuiLA. 245 



e. Imin. sk. Western Ghats. J. Gould, Esq. [P.J. 



f. Juv. sk. Behar. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 }/. Ad. St. Madras. Sir W. Elliot [P.]. 



h, i. cJ 2 juv. sk. Darjiling. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.l 



k. 2 juv. sk. Darjiling. R. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.]- 



/. c? ad. sk. Darjiling. R. B. Sharps, Esq. [P.J. 



8. Aquila wahlbergi. 



Aquila walilbergii, Sundev.(Efi\ K. Akad. Stockh. IS-dO, p. 109; Finsch 

 tt. Hard. Viig. Ostafr. p. 51 (1870) ; Sulvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 7 

 (1871). 



Aquila brehmii, Miill. Kaum. 1851, p. 24*. 



Aquila dssmursi, Verr. in Hartl. Orn. IV.-A/r. p. 4 (1857) ; Gurney, 

 Tr. Z. S. iv. p. 366, pi. 77 (1862). 



Head of Aquila wahlbergi. 



Adult female. Above brown, the feathers with distinct paler 

 brown margins ; head with a distinct occipital crest ; wiug-coverts 

 uniform with back, the margins whity brown ; primaries blackish, 

 secondaries browner, the innermost uniform with back and mar- 

 gined in the same manner ; tail nearly uniform dark brown, tipped 

 with whitish, and obsoletely barred with lighter brown on the inner 

 web ; sides of head fulvous brown, forming a sort of eyebrow, the 

 sides of the neck of the same colour ; ear-coverts and cheeks uni- 

 form dark brown ; under surface whity brown, much mixed with 

 dark brown on the throat, chest, and entire breast ; under taU-coverts 

 nearly uniform whity brown ; under wing-coverts dark brown, the 

 outermost whity brown ; inner lining of wing nearly uniform ashy 

 brown, rather lighter near the base, inclining to whitish at the base 

 of the inner web of first primary. Total length 26 inches, culmen 2, 

 wing 18, tail 10, tarsus 3. 



Young male. Above brown, with paler margins to the feathers, 

 very broad on the interscapulary region ; crown of the head rather 

 paler brown, slightly varied with whitish bases to the feathers ; from 

 the occiput a long pendent crest of dark brown feathers ; sides of 

 head, forming an eyebrow, sides of face and of neck, as well as 

 entire under surface of body, white, the ear-coverts slightly mottled 



* This species should be united to A. wahlbergii, according to Drs. Finsch 

 and Hartlaub : but Dr. von Heuglin (Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 48) says that he has 

 examined Von Midler's type and it is a young A. pennata. Heuglin, however, 

 apparently does not know A. desinursi. 



