480 ARDEID.E. 



brownish buff, irregularly marked with black and dark reddish 

 brown ; the primary quill-feathers mottled with greyish black 

 and chestnut colour ; tail-feathers reddish brown, varied with 

 black ; the cheeks buff; the sides of the neck the same, but 

 with narrow transverse lines of dark brown ; chin pale buffy 

 white ; from the angles of the mouth, and down the neck in 

 front, are large longitudinal streaks of dark brown and reddish 

 brown ; the feathers of the breast blackish brown in the cen- 

 tre, with broad margins of buff; under surface of the body 

 buff, with narrow streaks of dark brown ; legs and feet grass 

 green ; claws pale horn colour, the middle claw pectinated. 



Whole length of an adult bird from twenty-eight to thirty 

 inches. From the carpal joint to the end of the wing, four- 

 teen inches ; the first four quill-feathers nearly equal in length, 

 and the longest in the wing. 



Neither the females nor the young of the year differ essen- 

 tially from the males in their plumage. 



The vignette represents a mode of shooting an Eagle from 

 a pit. 



