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[FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 
ApRIL to Junz, 1834,] 
AFRICAN ZOOLOGY: 
By Dr. SMITH. 
Continued from page 256. 
Aquila coronata. Crested, crest white with some brown 
variegation towards shafts of feathers; head, neck, breast, 
belly, under tails coverts, and legs, white, the latter blotched 
particularly on outer-sides with black-brown. Back of the 
neck faintly spotted in some specimens with brown, and the 
under tail coverts obscurely banded with the same colour; 
back brown-grey, the feathers margined with white ; upper 
tail coverts white, broadly banded with brownish black ; 
shoulders dull brown, all the feathers margined with white and 
most of them blackish towards shafts; scapulars grey-brown, 
margined with white. Primary wing coverts black, margined 
with white; primary quill feathers dull brown, banded with 
black, the tips black; secondary quill feathers dusky grey, 
banded with black, tips white; the inner surfaces of wings prin- 
cipally white. Tail black with three or four hoary grey bands, 
tips of allthe feathers white. Bill black, base of lower mandi- 
ble yellow ; toes yellow; claws black. Length of male thirty. 
three inches, of female thirty-seven inches. 
Young.—Above black clouded with brown; upper tail 
coverts tipt with white ; beneath variegated freely with pale 
rufous, in somewhat transverse bands on breast and belly ; legs 
white, closely spotted with black ; tail black, with two broad 
hoary bands, and the tips of feathers tawny white. Crest black, 
the feathers tawny towards quills. 
Inhabits South Africa and Guinea. 
Crowned Eagle, Edwards, pl. 224. 
Obs. This species has generally been confounded with the last; it 
is, however, perfectly distinct. In the Bellicosa the wings are longer, 
the tail has a much greater number of bands, and no crest exists either in 
young or old specimens. In the present species the head is much 
smaller and rounder than in the last, the base of the lower mandible is, 
at all ages, of a yellow colour ; and when the wings are folded the points 
of the primary feathers scarcely reach beyond those of the secondaries. 
Genus Hatiartus. Savigny. 
Bill strong, convex above and hooked at the point; nostrils 
lunated, transverse; cere hairy; tarsi half-feathered, scutellated 
before, reticulated behind ; tail rownded or cuneform. 
Haliaétus blagrus. Bill brownish; eyes deep brown ; head, 
neck, breast, belly, and thighs, satin white, with the feathers of 
the head and back of the neck edged with brown. Scapulars 
and secondary wing coverts light greyish brown; tail the same, 
with the exception of the tip which is white. Primary wing 
Mm [77] 
