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Young. Colour deep shining brown ; wing coverts towards 

 points with large oval greyish white spots ; under tail coverts 

 and secondary quill feathers terminated by large spots of the 

 same colour, and the flanks and thighs are sprinkled with others 

 of a smaller size. 



Inhabits Africa and Europe, common in Egypt. 



Le petite Aigle, Buff. L'Aigle tachete, Guv. Beg. Animal. 



Aquila heliaca, Savig. Top of head and occiput rufous ; 

 the feathers edged with a brighter tint ; body above, shining 

 brown ; beneath, black-brown, with the exception of the belly 

 which is rufous-yellow ; part of the upper wing coverts white. 

 Tail grey-ash with irregular black bands, each feather with a 

 very broad black band towards its point, and tipt with yellowish. 

 Eyes whitish yellow; nostrils linear, with the upper edge 

 notched. Length about two feet and a half ; female three feet. 



Young. Head and neck straw-coloured and whitish ; upper 

 parts of neck and back brown, lightest along the middle of the 

 feathers ; the under parts straw-coloured and striped longitudi- 

 nally with brown-black. 



Inhabits Egypt and Europe. 



Aigle de Thebes, Savig. Ois. <V Egypt. Falco Imperialis, 

 Nam. Aquila mogilnik, G-mel. 



Aquila Vulturina, Shaw. Bill blackish blue, verging here 

 and there to a light horn-colour ; cere deep yellow ; eyes red- 

 dish brown ; space between them and bill pretty thickly set 

 with black bristles ; back and tail coverts white ; plumage else- 

 where deep black ; tail more rounded than in the foregoing 

 species ; toes deep yellow ; claws black. Length from bill to 

 base of tail seventeen inches ; length of latter twelve inches ; 

 expanse of wings about seven feet. 



Young. Head, back, and sides of neck, clear reddish tawny, 

 inclined to a pale chesnut, the interscapular and shoulder 

 feathers dirty brown, edged, and strongly tipt with tawny ; the 

 back a mixture of chesnut, brownish black, and dirty reddish 

 white. Below reddish brown of various tints, with the centres 

 of feathers blackish or blackish brown ; legs light tawny. 



Inhabits South Africa. 



Falco Vulturinus, Shaw, Zool. vol. vii. p. 58. Le Caffre, 

 Le Yaill. Dassie-vanger and Berghaan of the Cape Colonists. 



Aquila rapax. Bill livid blue towards base, dark horn- 

 coloured at tip ; cere yellow ; eyes reddish brown ; front, crown, 

 neck, inter scapulars, and back, pale tawny, with here and there 

 brownish variegations ; tail coverts tawny or dirty white ; 

 shoulders varied tawny and dark brown ; scapulars blackish 

 brown, more or less distinctly tipt with reddish white. Primary 



