298 FALCONID^; EUTOLMAETUS 



freckled with very pale brown. In this case too, the nest was built 

 in a large tree and composed of sticks lined with leaves and con- 

 tained only one egg a little incubated. 



Genus VI. EUTOLMAETUS. 



Type. 

 Eutolmaetus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 174 (1845) E. fasciatus. 



Bill moderately strong and hooked, the ridge of the culmen 

 being about equal to the length of the inner toe without claw ; edge 

 of the upper mandible slightly festooned ; sometimes a slight 

 occipital crest ; other characters as in Aquila, to which this genus 

 is very closely allied. 



The Hawk-eagles range over southern Europe and Asia as far 

 as Australia and over the whole of Africa. ' Out of four African 

 species three come within our limits. 



Key of the Species^ 



A. Smaller, wing 18 to 17 



a. Below white streaked with brown ......... E. pennatus ad. p. 298. 



b. Below sepia brown streaked with darker E. pennatus juv. p. 298. 



B. Medium, wing 17 to 19 



a. Below, white streaked with brown ...... E. spilvg aster ad. p. 299. 



b. Below, tawny rufous streaked with 



brown ............................................. E. spilogaster juv. p. 299. 



C. Larger, wing 23 to 25 



a. Below, chin and chest brown, rest of 



under parts white spotted with brown E. bcllicosus ad. p. 301. 



b. Below, white throughout ....... .............. E. bcllicosus juv. p. 301. 



519. Eutolmaetus pennatus. Booted Eagle. 



Falco pennatus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 272 (1788). 



Aquila pennata, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 10 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1869, p. 



361 ; Butler, Feilden, and Eeid, Zool. 1882, p. 460 [Newcastle] . 

 Hieraetus pennatus, Gurney, in Anderssoris B. Damaraland, p. 7, 



(1872) ; Beichenow, Vog. Afr. i, p. 580 (1901). 

 Nisaetus pennatus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. i, p. 253 (1874) ; Dresser, B. 



Eur. v, p. 461, pis. 336, 7 (1874) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. 



pp. 37, 797 (1875-84) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1877, p. 419 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1886, 



p. 263 [Kustenburg] ; Shelley, B. Afr. i, p. 149 (1896). 



Description. Adult female. Crown of the head and nape pale 

 tawny with dark brown shaft stripes ; back and wings brown, most 

 of the feathers with creamy white mottlings and edgings ; lower 



