AQUILA. 35 



Adult & .' Length 23 to 25 inches; wing 19 to 19*15 ; tail 9*5 ; tarsus 3-9 

 to 4 ; culmen 2*3. 



Males are smaller. 



Hab. Upper India. Recorded from Behar, Darjeeling, and Nepal, 



Nothing is known of the nidification of this handsome eagle, regarding which 

 there is a set controversy as to its being distinct from A. n&via. Mr. Sharpe 

 however remarks that the small white spots on the least wing coverts which 

 frequently occur in this species may perhaps present a character of importance 

 in distinguishing it from A. navta. 



31. Aquila Clanga, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso. Asia/, i. p. 351 ; Gray, Hand 



List. i. p. 28 ; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. p. 248 ; Murray, Hdbk. ZooL fyc. Sind. 

 Aquila vittata, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Miscellany, 1844. Aquila nsevia r 

 Schrenck. Reis. Amurl. Vog. p. 220 ; Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 29, No 28 ; Hume, 

 Rough Notes, i. p. 162 ; Stray Feathers, i. p. 158 ; Andr. P. Z. S. 1871 ; 

 Murray, Vert. ZooL Sind, pp. 75, 76. The SPOTTED EAGLE. 



Young Male. Above brilliant purplish brown ; head and neck rather duller 

 with lanceolate apical streaks of dingy buff on the nape and hind neck ; 

 wing coverts purplish brown like back, with a few dull white longitudinal 

 streaks on the median coverts, much larger and forming distinct oval spots on 

 the primary and greater coverts and tips of the scapulars. Quills blackish ; 

 secondaries browner with obsolete blackish bars and oval markings as the 

 scapulars ; lower back and rump with distinct triangular spots of ochraceous 

 buff ; the upper tail coverts almost uniform buffy white ; tail feathers blackish, 

 shading into brown towards the end, and tipped with whitey brown with 34 

 black bars near the tips ; under surface of body blackish ; the chin browner ; 

 breast feathers with pale brown mesial streaks, more ochraceous on the abdo- 

 men and leg feathers. Under tail coverts ochraceous buff; under wing coverts 

 uniform blackish ; axillaries browner. 



Length. 2628 inches; wing 20 21 ; tail 10 10*5 ; tarsus 3-9. 



Adult Male. Smaller than female. Length 26 27; wings 20 205; 

 tail IO; tarsus 3-6. The female is a powerful bird, and is 29 inches in length, 

 the wing being 21-4, tail ir8, tarsus 4*2. (Sharpe, Cat. Ace) 



Hab. Sind, Persia, Punjab, N.-W. Provinces, Bengal, Kutch, and Guzerat; 

 also the Concan and Deccan, Malabar, and Southern India. Breeds in 

 Sind, the Punjab, N.-W. Provinces and Oudh ; also in Bengal and Central 

 India. Capt. Marshall's note on the nidification of this species in the Sharun- 

 pur district gives May and June as the period of breeding. He says the nest 

 was placed in a fork near the top of a large tree along the bank of the Eastern 

 Jumna canal. It was a large circular platform-like structure of sticks with a 

 few dead leaves in the egg receptacle but no other lining. The diameter of the 

 whole nest was about 20 inches .with an interior depth of two inches. Eggs one 



