76 FALCONID^. 



Young Male. — A.bovc brilliant pnrplisli brown; bead and neck rather 

 duller, with laaceolate apical streaks of dingy buff' on the nape and 

 hind neck ; wing-coverts purplish brown like back, with a few dull white 

 longitudinal streaks on the median coverts, much larger and forming 

 distinct oval spots on the primary and greater coverts, and tips of the 

 scapulars. Quills blackish; secondaries browner with obsolete blackish 

 bars, and ovhI markings as the scapulars ; lower back and rump with 

 distinct triangular spots of ochraceous buff"; the upper tail-coverts almost 

 uniform buft'y- white; tail feathers blackish, shading into brown towards 

 the end, and tipped with whity brown with 3 — 4 black bars near the tips ; 

 under surface of body blackish; the chin browner; bi"east feathers with 

 pale brown mesial streaks, more ochraceous on the abdomen and leg 

 feathers. Under tail-coverts ochraceous buff ; under wing-coverts 

 uniform blackish ; axillaries browner. 



Length.— 26— 28 inches, wing 20—21, tail 10— 10-5, tarsus 3-9. 



Adult Il/aJc.— Smaller than female; length 26—27, wings 20—20-5, 

 tail 10, tarsus 3' 6. The female is a powerful bird, and is 29 inches 

 in length, the wing being 21*4, tail ITS, tarsus 4*2. — {Sharpe, Cat. 

 Ace.) 



Hah. — Sind, Persia, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Bengal, Kutch, and 

 Guzerat; also the Concau and Deccan, Malabar, and Southern India. 

 Breeds in Sind during April and May. 



Aquila vindhiana, Franld. P. Z. 8. 1831, p. 114; Stncld. Om. 

 8i/n. p. 5 1:*; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. p. 244, Aquila punctata. Gray, in Gr. 

 8f Hard. III. hid. Zool. i. pi. 16. Aquila fusca, id. op. cit. ii. pi. 26. 

 Aquila fulvesceus, id. op. cit. ii. pi. 29 ; Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 60, 

 No. 29; Hume, Rough Notes, i. p. 173; Stray Feathers, i. p. 158; 

 Murray, Hdbk., Zool., Sjx., Sind, p. 109. Wokhab, Hind. ; Ukab, Sind. — • 

 The Tawny Eagle. 



Young. — Above glossy purplish brown with distinct fulvous tips to 

 the feathers, broader on lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts; head 

 and neck all round and entire under parts greyish mouse colour, with 

 distinct points to all the feathers of the head and neck, absent on the 

 under surface, excepting a few remains on the tips of the abdominal and 

 lower throat feathers ; lores and chin whitish, with narrow black shaft- 

 lines, the latter also apparent on the cheeks and ear-coverts, which are 

 mouse grey, like the breast ; tarsal feathers and under tail-coverts 

 more fulvescent; under wing-coverts mouse grey with pale fulvous 

 tips ; upper wing-coverts ashy brown, with a very shght purplish gloss, 

 but not so dark as the back, nor so grey as the head, though tipped 

 like the latter with fulvous ; greater and primary coverts, as well as the 

 secondaries, deep brown, with whitish ends ; primaries black, slightly 

 shaded with brown near the base ; lower surface of wing ashy brown, 

 blackish towards tips of primaries; the inner webs of all slightly 

 mottled with greyish. Tail purplish brown, tipped with bui3y white ; 

 all the feathers shaded with ashy grey, forming indistinct bars on the 

 centre feathers, on which remains of eleven or twelve can be counted. 



Length.— 28 mches, wmg 20'7o, tail 11, tarsus 3*2. 



