188c. 
#4189. 
+190. 
sg a 
Wing 3 500-520, 2 520-560 mm. ; general 
colour fulvous brown, paler on head and 
neck and below, above with lighter margins 
to the feathers, especially on wing-coverts ; 
tail dark brown with fulvous tip and 8 or 9 
indistinct greyish bars on centre feathers. 
Aquiva rapax belisavius (Levaill. jun.) Expl. 
Sc. Alg. Ois. pl. 2 [not. text], (1850) ; text 
by Loche, i., p.167 (1867). [Guelma, N.E. 
Algeria. | 
Algerian Tawny Eagle. 
Wing ¢ 530-550, 2 540-580 mm. ; head, 
neck all round and inter-scapulary region 
chocolate brown. 
Aquila clanga Pall., Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1., 
p- 351 (1827). [In Rossia Sibiriaque uni- 
versa. | 
Greater Spotted Eagle. 
Wing 3 500-520, 2 550-560 mm. ; plumage 
above and below blackish-brown ; tail 
unbarred ; younger birds purplish brown, 
much spotted and streaked with buff above 
and striped below: tail blackish, barred 
dark brown. 
Aquila pomarina pomarina Brehm, Vog. 
Deutschl., p. 27 (1831). [Pomeranza.| 
Lesser Spotted Eagle. 
Smaller ; wing g 450-485, 9 490-520 mm. ; 
plumage browner ; crown and nape creamy 
brown ; tail feathers with obsolete lighter 
bars ; younger birds less spotted than those 
of A. clanga and tail unbarred ; nape patch 
ochraceous rufous. 
Marocco, 
Algeria, 
dumnisia 
acc. Roumania, 
Sardinia and 
Spain ? 
E. Europe, from 
Russia S.W. to 
Hungary and 
Balkans? E. to 
Turkestan, 
S. Siberia, 
N. India and 
China yawn 
winter to N.E. 
Africa, India, 
Burmarcas 
Brit. Isles. 
C. Europe trom 
EK. Germany, 
Baltic States 
and Poland to 
Bessarabia and 
Balkans (S. to 
Greece), 
cas. W. Europe ; 
in winter to 
N.E. Africa. 
