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Eagle is occasionally met with throughout Egypt and the 

 Fayoom during the winter mouths ; and Antinori calls it com- 

 paratively common in Egypt and Lower Nubia. I have, 

 however, never met with it during my several visits to those 

 countries, nor have I seen an Egyptian specimen in any 

 collection. 



Upper plumage brown, with the edges of the feathers 

 mostly lighter ; quills black ; tail more or less shaded with 

 ash-colour, paler at the tip, and somewhat irregularly barred 

 with dusky ; throat and under surface of the body white or 

 pale ferruginous, with brown stripes down the centres of the 

 feathers ; tarsus feathered ; cere and feet yellow ; beak horn- 

 blue ; irides brown. 



Entire length 24 to 30 inches ; culmen 1-75 ; wing 19*8 ; 

 tail irS ; tarsus 43. 



Fig. Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 7. 



199. Aquila pennata (Gm.). Booted Ea^le. 



Plentiful at times in Egypt and Nubia. It arrives about 

 March to breed, and leaves again in September. It appears 

 to be rather uncertain in its visits ; for I never met with it 

 during my last two tours in the country ; but in March 

 1868, near Benisouef, our party killed three, and we saw 

 several others either among the clumps of sont trees or 

 beating up and down the fields, which were at that time full 

 of Quail. 



Specimens often differ very considerably in the colour of 

 their chests. 



Forehead occasionally white ; remainder of the head and 



