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General colour pale clay or ochraceou« 

 colour. 

 183a. Aquila rupax albicans Rlipp., Neixe Wirbelth. 

 p. 34, pi. 13 (1835). [Prov. Simen, Abijs.] 

 Rtippeir.s TaAviiy Eagle. 



Size similar : length (^ 28. wing 20.5 in. ; 

 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. 

 183b. Aquila rapax vindhiana Frank]., P. Z.>S. 

 1831, p. 114. [Vindhya Mtns,, Central India. \ 

 Indian Tawny Eagle. 



Smaller ; head, neck all round and inter- 

 scapulary region chocolate broAvn. 

 183c. Aquila rapax belisarius (Levaill. jun.) Expl. 

 So. Alg. Ois. pi. 2 (1850). {Guelma, N .E . 

 Algeria.'] 

 Algerian Tawny Eagle. 



Nostrils round ; length, 9^ about 29, wing 

 21.50-23 'n\.\^, wing 20 in.; plumage above 

 and below blackish brown ; tail xuibarred ; 

 younger birds ]3urplish brown, much spotted 

 with brownish- buff above and striped below : 

 tail blackish, barred dark brown. 

 184. Aquila clanya Pall., Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., i, 

 p. 351 (1827). [In Rossia Sibiriaque uni- 

 versa.] 

 Greater Spotted Eade 



N.E. Africa 

 (Abysinia, 

 Somaliland), 

 Arabia. 



Indian 

 Peninsula 

 and 

 Himalayas 



Alo;eria . 



E. & S.E. 

 Europe, 

 south to 

 Balkans, E. 

 to Turkestan, 

 S, Siberia, 

 N. India and 

 China ; in 

 winter to 

 N.E. Africa.. 

 India, 



Burma ; cas. 

 Brit. Isles. 



Smaller ; wing $ 19-20 in. ; S 17.70-19 in. ; 

 plumage browner : crown and nape creamy 

 Ijrown : tail feathers with obsolete lighter 



