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with feathers; bill large, long and powerful ; 
cutting edge of upper mandible festooned, but not 
toothed; wings long; tail moderate; sexes 
generally alike. 
Gen. XLVIII. UROAETUS Kaup (1844). 
Type by orig. desig. Aquila fucosa Dumont =Vultur audax Lath. 
Tail strongly graduated, wedge-shaped ; tarsi 
clothed with feathers all round to base of toes ; 
feet and claws very powerful. 
*1182. Uvoaétus audax (Lath.) Ind. Orn. Suppl. Australia, 
p- li. (1801). [New Holland = New South Tasmania. 
Wales, apud. Math. ] 
Wedge-tailed Eagle. 
Wing 3 582, 2612-632 mm. ; general colour 
above and below black, browner on wings ; 
nape tawny chestnut ; upper tail-coverts 
brown mottled with white; tail feathers 
white at base of inner web. Younger 
birds have much more pale chestnut on 
hind neck, wing-coverts and chest. 
Gen, XEEX; VAOUILA Briss. (1760): 
Type by tautonomy A. aquila Briss = Falco chrysaétos Linn. 
Tail nearly square or moderately rounded ; tarsi 
feathered all round; toes reticulated above, 
except last phalanx which is scaled ; head without 
crest ; claws powerful and curved. 
183. Aquila verreauxi Less., Cent. Zool., p. 105, Mountains of 
pl. 38 (1830). [Interior of Cape of Good S. Africa, 
Hope.] NE: Africa 
Verreaux’s Eagle (Abyssinia and 
Somaliland) ; 
acc. Palestine. 
