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[FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 

 APEIL to JUNE, 1834.] 



AEEICAN ZOOLOGY: 



By DR. SMITH. 



Continued from page 256. 



Aquila coronata. Crested, crest white with some brown 

 variegation towards shafts of feathers ; head, neck, breast, 

 belly, under tails coverts, and legs, white, the latter blotched 

 particularly on outer- sides with black-brown. Back of the 

 neck faintly spotted in some specimens with brown, and the 

 under tail coverts obscurely banded with the same colour ; 

 back brown-grey, the feathers margined with white ; upper 

 tail coverts white, broadly banded with brownish black ; 

 shoulders dull brown, all the feathers margined with white and 

 most of them blackish towards shafts ; scapulars grey-brown, 

 margined with white. Primary wing coverts black, margined 

 with white ; primary quill feathers dull brown, banded with 

 black, the tips black ; secondary quill feathers dusky grey, 

 banded with black, tips white ; the inner surfaces of wings prin- 

 cipally white. Tail black with three or four hoary grey bands, 

 tips of all the feathers white. Bill black, base of lower mandi- 

 ble yellow ; toes yellow ; claws black. Length of male thirty- 

 three inches, of female thirty-seven inches. 



Young. Above black clouded with brown; upper tail 

 coverts tipt with white ; beneath variegated freely with pale 

 rufous, in somewhat transverse bands on breast and belly ; legs 

 white, closely spotted with black ; tail black, with two broad 

 hoary bands, and the tips of feathers tawny white. Crest black, 

 the feathers tawny towards quills. 



Inhabits South Africa and Guinea. 



Crowned Eagle, Edwards, pi. 224. 



Obs. This species has generally been confounded with the last; it 

 is, however, perfectly distinct. In the Bellicosa the wings are longer, 

 the tail has a much greater number of bands, and no crest exists either in 

 young or old specimens. In the present species the head is much 

 smaller and rounder than in the last, the base of the lower mandible is, 

 at all ages, of a yellow colour ; and when the wings are folded the points 

 of the primary feathers scarcely reach beyond those of the secondaries. 



Genus HALIAETUS. Savigny. 



Bill strong, convex above and hooked at the point ; nostrils 

 lunated, transverse ; cere hairy ; tarsi half-feathered, scutellated 

 before, reticulated behind ; tail rounded or cuneform. 



Haliaetus blagrus. Bill brownish ; eyes deep brown ; head, 

 neck, breast, belly, and thighs, satin white, with the feathers of 

 the head and back of the neck edged with brown. Scapulars 

 and secondary wing coverts light greyish brown ; tail the same, 

 with the exception of the tip which is white. Primary wing 



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