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Wing $ 18.3 in. ; above blackish-brown, 

 mottled with white ; below purer white 

 streaked with black on breast, and with large 

 spots on under tail -coverts ; under Aving- 

 co verts black. 

 186b. Hieraaetus fasciatus spilogaster (Bp.), Rev. et 

 Mag. Zool.. 1850, p. 487 [Abyssinia, ex Du 

 Bus. M.S.]. 

 African Hawk-Eagle. 



Tropical 

 Africa ; rare 

 S. Africa. 



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187. 



Smaller ; wing $ ] 6.5, cJ 14.0 ; above brown, 

 head and neck isabelline ; tail with obsolete 

 darker bars on outer feathers ; below white, 

 throat and breast washed with fawn and 

 streaked with reddish brown or blackish ; 

 species subject to variation : younger birds 

 dull brown below with black shaft -stripes, 

 and a white shoulder patch. 

 Hieraaetus pennatus (Gmel.), S.N., i., p. 272 

 (1788) [ex Brisson, I. c.]. 

 Booted Eagle. 



S. Europe 

 (Spain to i 

 Russia) ; 

 Africa, 0. 

 Asia, India, 

 Ceylon. 



188. 



Smaller, and with a short occipital crest ; 

 length ad. 21.5 in. , wing 15 in. ; above 

 brown, croAvn darker ; crest, neck and under- 

 surface rufous, Avith black shaft-streaks ; tail 

 mottled greyish-brown, with 7 or 8 dark 

 brown bars. 



Hieraaetus morphnoides morphnoides (Gould), 

 P.Z.S., 1840, p. 161 (1841). [Upper Hunter, 

 N.S.W.] 

 Little Eagle. 



E. and W. 



Australia. 



Below heavily striped with dark brown. 

 189. Hieraaetus weiskei Reichenow, Orn. M.B., S.E. New 

 viii., p. 185 (1900). [Astrolabe Mtns.] Guinea. 



New Guinea Little Eagle. 



Below pale isabelline : tail with 7 dark bands. 

 190. Hieraaetus ayresi Gurney, Ibis, 1862, p. 149, Tropical 



pi. iv. [Natal.] Africa to S. 



Ayres' Little Eagle [=Lophotriorchis lucani Africa. 

 Sharpe.] 



