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camels. It is the Bearcoote of Atkinson in his Travels in 

 Noi-thern and Central Asia.* 



27. Aquila Imperialis, Bechst. 



Falco, apud Bechstein— Gould, Birds of Europe, pi. 5— 



Blyth, Cat. 100— HoRSF., Cat. 58— Jerdon, 2nd Suppl., Cat. 9 



— Gray and Hardw., 111. Ind. Zool, 2nd vol., pi. 28 — A. 



raogilnik, Gmel.— A. heliaca, Sav.— A. bifasciata, Gray and 



Hardw., 111. Ind. Zool. 1, pi. 17— Sykes, Cat 8— Jerdon, Cat. 



No. 10— A. Nipalensis, Hodgs., As. Res. XVIII., pi. 13— A. 



Chrysaetos, apud Jerdon, Cat. No. 9 — Jumiz, or Jumhiz. Hind.— 



Frus^ Beng. 



The Imperial Eagle. 



Descr. — The young bird has the plumage generally pale brown, 

 paler beneath, and albescent towards the vent ; two white bands 

 on the wings, caused by the tips of the greater coverts and 

 of the secondaries being white ; tip of the tail white. (A. 

 bifasciata). 



In a more advanced state, the feathers are broadly edo-ed with 

 dark brown, leaving only the centre pale, as in Gray and Hard- 

 wicke's figure of imperialis. 



The adult is a fine rich glossy dark brown ; the head and hind 

 neck an orange bufF; the forehead dark, from the feathers being 

 streaked with dark brown ; quills black ; tail dark hoary grey, 

 barred and clouded with blackish, and with a broad black terminal 

 band, tipped whitish ; shoulders generally with some white spots, 

 as also the scapulars ; under tail coveits pale brownish white ; 

 some of the hlndermost of the upper tail coverts are nearly white. 

 Cere yellow, with a tinge of green ; feet yellow. Irides in adults 

 brownish yellow ; dusky brown in the young bird. 



* Atkinson in his Travels on the Amoor describes and figures a scene which h^ 

 asserts he witnessed himself. Some wolves had pulled down a deer, when two 

 Golden Eagles came down on them from a vast height, attacked the wolves, killed 

 two of them, and pulled their livers out. This is a sport I confess I would haTa 

 liked to have been present at. 



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