202 BIRDS OF EGYPT. 



cinnamou-brown, mottled with dark brown ; primaries dark 

 brown, inclining to grey on the outer webs, and boldly 

 marked with white or pale cinnamon on the inner webs ; 

 tail buff or pale cinnamon-brown, sometimes faintly edged 

 with grey on the outer feathers, and usually unbarred, or at 

 most only exhibiting veiy faint signs of cross bars ; but upon 

 one occasion I met with a specimen which had the tail very 

 distinctly marked with a number of perfect brown l)ars ; 

 underparts cream-colour, more or less streaked with brown 

 or cinnamon on the throat and crop ; abdomen more or less 

 of a uniform pale chestnut ; most of the underpart of the 

 wings white ; legs and cere yellow ; beak dusky ; irides pale 

 yellowish brown. 



Entire length 22 to 25 inches; culmen 10 to 1'8 ; wing, 

 carpus to tip, 17"5 to 18 "7 ; tarsus 3' 5 to 4. 



'^ttolsAAJi 191 • CiRCAETUS GALLicus (Gm.). Skort-toed Eaffle. 



m hiii<.jjr(p^ Tolerably plentiful throughout Egypt and Nul)ia, fre- 



vOj^d , quenting mountainous districts. On the wing it may be 



mistaken for the Osprey ; but it is rather larger, and of a 



generally paler colour, while in disposition it is not nearly 



so shy. 



Head rather broad ; upper plumage ashy brown, with pale 

 edgings to the feathers ; head and neck occasionally much 

 paler ; inner web of the quills marked with pure white, and 

 barred with dusky brown ; tail tipped Avith white, and with 

 three rather indistinct dusky bars, the inner web of all but 

 the two centre feathers white ; underparts white, spotted and 

 barred with pale brown, chiefly on the upper part of the 



