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Family Falconid^. 

 Sub-Family Gypaetin^. 



1603. (1199) Qypaetus barbatus grandis. The EaMern Bearded 

 Vulture. 



Gypaetus grandis Storr., Alpenreise vom Jahr. 1781 — 4, 

 p. 69 {Switzerland). 



S. Europe, East to Central Asia, Himalayas and China. 

 Sub-Family Falconing. 



-1604. (1200) Aquila chrysaetus daphanae. Himalayan Golden 

 Eagle. 



Aquila daphanse Hodg. in Oray's Zool. Misc., p. 81 

 (1844), (Nepal). 



Central Asia, Tianschan and Altai to Himalayas. 



'1605. (1202) Aquila heliaca. The Imperial Eagle. 



Savigny, Descr. Egijple Says. Ois., p. 82 (1809), {Upper 

 Egypt). 



E. Europe and N. Africa to India. 



1606. (1202) Aquila nipalensis nipalensis. The Eastern Steppe- 



Eagle. 



Circaetus nipalensis Hodg., As. Res., xviii., (2), p. 13 

 • (1833), {Nepal). 



Mongolia and S.E. Siberia to the Altai, India and 

 Burma. 



1607. (1203) Aquila rapax vindhiana. The Indian Tawny 



Eagle. 



Aquila vindhiana Frank, P.Z.S., 1831, p. 114 {Vindhya 

 Hills.) 



India to Persian Baluchistan. Not Assam or Ceylon. 

 11608. (1205) Aquiia clanga. The Greater Spotted Eagle. 



Pall. Zoog. Rosso. Asiat. i., p. 351 (1827), {Russia and 

 Siberia). 



E.jEurope to Amur, winter S. to S. Asia and N.E. Africa. 

 J609. (1206) Aquila hastata. The Small Indian Spotted Eagle. 



Morphnus hastatus Less., Voy. hid. Belanger, p. 217 



(1834), {Bengal). 



India and Burma, not Ceylon. 



