516 HIERAETUS 



Aigle botte, French ; Aguia pequena, Portug. ; AguilucJw,. 

 Aguila calzada, Span. ; Aquila minorc, Ital. ; Zwergadler, 

 German. 



<$ ad. (Spain). Forehead and lores \vliite ; head and neck warm sandy 

 isabelline, streaked with brown ; upper parts dark earth-brown, the 

 scapulars and wing-coverts varied with sandy grey ; quills dark brown, 

 secondaries tipped with whitish brown ; tail dark brown, tipped with pale 

 isabelline, the outer feathers with obsolete darker bars ; under parts white,, 

 the breast streaked with reddish brown, flanks also faintly striped ; legs 

 feathered to the toes ; bill bluish at the base, black at the tip ; cere and 

 feet wax yellow ; iris light hazel. Culmen 1*5, wing 14'0, tail 8*5, tarsus 

 2'6 inch. Female similar but larger. This Eagle is subject to considerable 

 variation in both sexes, some being darker and more rufous, others again 

 blackish brown, and others again have a white shoulder patch more or less 

 developed. Young birds are generally more rufous than the adult. 



Hob. Southern Europe, rarer in Central Europe, commoner 

 in the south-east and south-west ; Africa south to the Cape ; 

 Asia Minor, Central Asia, India, Ceylon, and Burma ; of 

 accidental occurrence in Dauria. 



Frequents the woodlands and in its general habits somewhat 

 resembles the Buzzards but is more active and predacious. It 

 feeds on small mammals and birds, and is graceful and elegant 

 on the wing, and not a shy bird. Its cry is a clear ke, ke, ke. 

 It selects a high deciduous tree for its nest, constructing it of 

 sticks with fresh green leaves or fresh pine-twigs for a lining. 

 The eggs, usually two in number, are deposited late in 

 April or in May, and are white tinged with greenish, rarely 

 faintly marked with rufous, and are rather more coarse in grain 

 of shell than those of the Goshawk ; in size they average about 

 2-21 by 1-79. 



730. BONELLI'S EAGLE. 

 HIERAETUS FASCIATUS. 



Ilieraetus fasciatus (Vieill.), Mem. Linn. Soc. Paris, p. 152 (1822) ; 

 (Sharpe), Cat. B. Br. Mus. i. p. 250; (Dresser), v. p. 575, pis. 351,. 

 tig. 1, 352, 353 ; Blanf. F. Brit. Ind. Birds, iii. p. 342 ; H. lonellii 

 (Temm.) PI. Col. i. pi. 288 (1824) ; Naum. xiii. p. 33, Taf. 341 ; 

 Gould, B. of E. i. pi. 7. 



Aigle a queue barrtfe, French ; Aguila perdicera, Span. ; Aguila 

 del Bonelli, Ital. ; HabicJits-Adkr, German ; Morangi, tTindu. : 

 Agab, Arab. ; Tcir-Thum, Moor. 



ad. (Morocco). Upper parts dark brown, the feathers on the head 

 and back white on the basal portion ; dorsal feathers to some extent,. 



