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Length about 20 inclies. General colour coffee brown. 

 Young birds are deeper brown with pale edges and whitish 

 spots to the feathers of the upper parts, and ochreous streaks 

 on the under parts. 



241. Imperial Eagle. Aquila imperialis Bechstem. 



Aquila imperialis. Shelley, p. 205. 



Not uncommon from autumn to spring in Lower Egypt. 



Length about 28 inches. The adult has the crown, nape, 

 and abdomen rufous ; rest of the plumage dark brown. The 

 scapulars, however, are nearly entirely white ; tail greyer with 

 irregular black bars. Young birds are lighter brown and are 

 streaked with rufous above and below, and lack the white 

 scapulars. 



242. Golden Eagle. Aquila chrysoetus (Liamseus). 



Aquila fulva. Shelley, p. 204. 



This species has been recorded by Von Heuglin as an occa- 

 sional and irregular visitor. The only examples which have so 

 far come under my notice, however, were three shot on the 

 desert east of Helwan in 1916. The first, an adult, obtained by 

 Mr. C. R. Haswell, and a pair shot in the same locality a short 

 time afterwards by His Highness Prince Kamal el Din Pasha, 

 who most generously presented them to the Giza Zoological 

 Museum. 



Length about 30 inches. General colour dark brown ; 

 nape tawny bro^vn ; tail mottled with dark grey ; legs feathered 

 to the toes. Yoimg birds have the basal half of the tail white. 



243. Booted Eagle. Aquila pennatus (Gmelin). 



Aquila pennata. Shelley, p. 207. 



A not uncommon visitor from September to March. 

 Shelley states that it arrives in March to breed and leaves in 

 September, but I have no records of its nesting in this coimtry. 



Length about 20 inches. Upper parts dark brown, most 

 of the feathers being edged with lighter brown ; under parts 

 white streaked with light brown. 



244. Short-toed Eagle. CirccBtus gallicus (Gmelin). 



CirccBtus gallicus. Shelley, p. 202. 



Not uncommon and resident. A few pairs nest in the 

 western desert and also probably on the eastern side of the Nile. 



