FALCONID^ AQUILA 293 



A female is rather larger, length 36-0 ; wing 25-75 ; tarsus 4-7. 



A young bird has the crown and occiput tawny deepening to 

 chestnut on the upper back; the upper tail- coverts whitish tipped 

 with brown, the wing brown, the coverts, scapulars, and secondaries 

 with much paler edges and tips ; tail brown with paler tips ; below, 

 the throat and chest is black with traces of tawny edgings to the 

 feathers, this latter increases on the abdomen and lower tail-coverts; 

 the thighs are also brown and pale tawny. Younger birds are clear 

 fawn colour above and below. 



Distribution. — Verreaux's Eagle is found in the highlands of 

 Abyssinia and Shoa and reappears in South Africa, but has not 

 hitherto been noticed between these distant points. 



Fig. 96. — Aquila verreauxi. x |. 



In South Africa it is fairly common in mountainous districts 

 from Table Mountain to Colesberg ; I recently saw a pair within 

 twenty yards of me at Smitwinkel Bay, about five miles south of 

 Simonstown ; it breeds in the Drakensberg of Natal whence it comes 

 down to the midland districts of that Colony, and in the Magahes- 

 berg of the western Transvaal, but it is not known from German 

 south-west Africa or Ehodesia. 



The following are localities in the Cape Colony— about Table 

 Mountain in the Cape district (Layard and Stark), French Hoek 

 in Paarl and Cedarbergen in Clanwilliam (Stark), Worcester, 

 Caledon, Beaufort West, Colesberg (S. A. Mus.), Albany and Bed- 

 ford divisions (Grahamstown Museum), Namaqualand (Andersson). 



