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General colour pale clay or ochraceous 

 colour. 

 183a. Aquila rapax albicans Riipp., Neue Wirbeltli. 

 p. 34, pi. 13 (1835). [Prov. Simen, Abys.] 

 RiippeH's Tawny Eagle. 



Size similar : length ^ 28. wing 20.5 in. ; 

 general colour fulvous brown, paler on head 

 and neck and below, above with lighter 

 margins to the feathers, especially on wing- 

 coverts : tail dark brown with fulvous tip 

 and 8 or 9 indistinct greyish bars on centre 

 feathers. 

 183b. Aquila rapax vindhiana Frankl., P. Z.8. 

 1831, p. 114. [Vindhya Mtns,, Central India.] 

 Indian Tawny Eagle. 



Smaller ; head, neck all round and inter- 

 scapulary region chocolate brown. 

 183c. Aquila rapax belisarins (Levaill. jun.) Expl. 

 Sc. Alg. Ois. pi. 2 (1850). [Guelma, N.E. 

 Algeria.'] 

 Algerian Tawny Eagle. 



Nostrils round ; length, $, about 29, wing 

 21.50-23 in.; (J, wing 20 in.; plumage above 

 and below blackish brown ; tail unbarred ; 

 younger birds purplish brown, much spotted 

 with brownish- buff above and striped below : 

 tail blackish, barred dark brown. 

 184. Aquila clanga Pall., Zoogr. Rosso -Asiat., i, 

 p. 351 (1827). [In Rossia Sibiriaque uni- 

 versa.] 

 Greater Spotted Eagle 



N.E. Africa 

 (Abysinia, 

 Somaliland), 

 Arabia. 



Indian 

 Peninsula 

 and 

 Himalayas 



Algeria. 



E. & S.E. 

 Europe, 

 south to 

 Balkans, E. 

 to Turkestan, 

 S. Siberia, 

 N. India and 

 China ; in 

 winter to 

 N.E. Africa, 

 India, 



Burma ; cas. 

 Brit. Isles. 



Smaller ; wing ? 19-20 in. ; ^ 17.70-19 in. ; 

 plumage browner : crown and nape creamy 

 brown : tail feathers with obsolete lighter 



