312 MR. A. ANDERi-ON ON THK [Maf. 21, 



received a typical " bifasciata " in evidently nestling or first plumage 

 from Dr. Crowfoot, labelled " orienfalis, juv., Sarepta, August," of 

 «hich the following is a description : — Genera! colour of upper parts 

 a rich hair-brown ; the lower surface is a little lighter in tone ; some 

 of the feathers of the nape of the neck (as in the nestling of A. has- 

 tuta) are tipped with fulvous ; t]ie louder row of median coverts, the 

 greater wing-coverts, and ends of the secondaries and tertials are 

 very broadly ended with salmon-colour or reddish bvff, forming three 

 distinct wing-bars when the wing is closed; some of the median 

 coverts nearest the tertials liave the buff spot at the end of the feather 

 of a long or isosceles-triangular shape, the point of the spot being of 

 course towards tlie base of the featlier ; most of the lower-back 

 feathers are broadly edged with buff, and the lowest ones adjoining 

 the upper tail-coverts are lonuitudinally marked with duller buff; 

 one or two of these feathers have this colour almost confined to one 

 side of the feather, with a slight spot en the other web ; others have 

 a very large oval spot of dull buff on the apical half of the feather, 

 with a brown stripe down the middle of the feather dividing the 

 buff; the side feathers of the lower back are much paler brown, and 

 the broad edges of the feathers are dull white instead of buff; all 

 the upper tail-coverts are of a beautiful buff or salmon-colour, having 

 their edges somewhat paler; the tibial plumes are tipped with dull 

 whitish ; the lower tail-coverts are first dull white streaked with 

 brown, and those beyond them nearest the tail are dull unspotted 

 buff; along the ridge of the wing towards bases of primaries there 

 are some whitish spots, and the primary-coverts are broadly ended 

 with salmon- colour, like the greater coverts ; lining of wing brown 

 near bend ; lower down the feathers are tipped with white, and those 

 nearest the primaries are largely patched with buff, the lowest 

 leathers of all being white with some grey jiatches ; axillary plumes 

 brown, with white tips; primaries black; secondaries not so black ; 

 tertials a dark brown, save the light tips of the two latter ; the inner 

 primaries towards their bases are slightly mottled on their inner webs 

 with grey, and the secondaries and tertials increasingly so, taking 

 the form of distinct bars on the two latter ; tail dark brown, barred 

 with grey, all the feathers being broadly ended with reddish buff; 

 the cere and feet appear to have been greenish yellow ; the outer pri- 

 maries are not fully grown ; and as the specimen was procured in 

 August, it is in all probability not more than three months old ; 

 length of wings 19"75, tail I0"2.'i, tarsus 3*6, bill from gape 2'8 ; 

 the nostrils are long ones, placed obliquely, as is characteristic of A, 

 bifasciata. 



This specimen, probably a female, is not full-grown, as the outer- 

 most primaries are only partially developed ; and it is evidently in 

 nestling plumage, as indicated by its uniform rich, soft, silky, dark 

 brown plumage ; the wing-bands as well as up))er tail-coverts (these 

 ^^ould have become gradually white from exposure to the influence 

 ot the sun) are of a rich fulvous or salmon- col our. I have frequently 

 killed this Eagle in a similar stage ofjjlumage* ; but the wing-bands 

 » Cf. r.Z. S. 1872, p. G21. 



