AQUILIN A, 29 
pron i) THE SporreD EAGLE. | 
3. Length, 25 to 265; expanse, 60 to 64; wing, 19 to 20; 
tail, 10°6 to 11; tarsus, 4; bill from gape, 2°3 to 2°7. ; 
?. Length, 27 to 285; expanse, 68 to 73; wing, 20 to 21; 
tail, 11:5 to 12 ; tarsus, 4 to 4°25; bill from gape, 2°3 to 2°5, 
Cere, orbits, and feet dark yellow ; irides deep brown. 
Adult: richly empurpled brown on the scapulars, inter-scapu- 
lars, and lesser wing-coverts; the lanceolate feathers of the 
head and neck somewhat lighter brown, streaked paler, and the 
under parts generally lighter brown than the upper plumage ; 
some larger and pure white spots on the greater wing-coverts, 
and two white bars tipping the secondaries and greater-coverts, 
as in A. mogilnik; the tibial plumes similarly spotted; the 
under tail-coverts, and generally the short tarsal plumes, are 
white ; and the abdomen is more or less streaked with fulvous. 
Young birds are pale brown throughout, lighter beneath; and 
in the intermediate plumage the feathers are dark, centred with 
pale brown; some have the plumage dark dull brown, with 
dingy-white markings. 
The Spotted Hagle occurs throughout the district, frequenting 
tanks and marshes, more especially the well-wooded parts. 
It is often seen in the early morning sitting in a slouching 
kite-like attitude, half way up a tree. Its favorite food appears 
to be frogs, but it does not disdain carrion. 
It breeds about May ; the nest is a large platform-like structure, 
built generally in a fork, near the top of a high tree, in the vicinity 
of water, and is composed of sticks and twigs. The eggs, one 
or two in number, are blunt oval in shape, of a slightly yellowish 
glossless white color, profusely spotted and blotched with faint 
yellowish and purplish-brown. They measure 2°75 by 2. 
Aquila vindhiana, Frankl. 
29.—A. fulvescens, Gray.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 
60; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 446 ; Deccan, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 372; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology 
of Sind, p. 76 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, p. 57 ; 
Hume’s Scrap Book, p, 173. 
THE TAWNY EAGLE. 
Wokhab, Hin. Dholwa, Wagree. 
3. Length, 24 to 26; expanse, 60 to 665; wing, 18 to 21; 
tail, 10 to 11; bill at gape, 2 to 2°25. 
?. Length, 27 to 285; expanse, 69 to 73:5; wing, 20 to 
22°5 ; tail, 11 to 12; bill from gape, 2:25 to 2°5. 
Cere deep yellow ; irides hazel-brown ; feet yellow. 
Young bird, light fulvous, brightest on the head and throat, 
changing to pale dingy-brown on the back and scapulars, and 
to whitish-yellow beneath, with dark shafts; shoulders and 
lesser-coverts pale whity-brown; quills black; tail dusky, with 
faint dark bars. 
