THE EAGLE-LIKE SUBFAMILY 



1975 



white tips, although the innermost have the sooty hue of the scapulars. The tail, 

 with its inferior coverts, is chestnut maroon, like the back; the under surface of the 

 wings being mainly gray and white. The cere and naked skin in front of the eyes, 

 together with the feet, are of a deep coral red, while the iris is brown, and the 

 beak black. Such are the striking colors of the ordinary form of the bateleur eagle, 

 although individuals have been obtained in which the chestnut maroon of the back 

 is replaced by creamy fulvous. Such birds have been regarded as representing a 



BATELEUR EAGLE. 

 (One-fifth natural size.) 



distinct species, but it is suggested by Dr. Sharpe that they may prove to be the fully 

 adult condition of the ordinary form. The females attain a length of twenty- 

 five, and the males of about twenty-one inches Visitors to the eagle house in the 

 Zoological Society's Gardens in Regent's Park may perhaps think that we have 

 exaggerated the color of the cere and face in the bateleur eagle, as they will find 

 these in the captive birds of a pale orange-yellow tint. This fading is, however, 



