AQUILA CORONATA.— Smith. 



AvEs. — Plates XL. and XLI. 



A. capite, cerviee, partibusque iuferioribus flavo-albis ; cruribus nigro-bruimeis niaculatis ; dorso griseo- 

 brunneo, plumis albo-marginatis ; uropygio, eauclffiipie tectricibus superiorlbiis nigro-brunneis albo- 

 fasciatis ; alis subbrevibus ; cauJa longa, nigro bnamea, dimidio ultimo fa>ciis tribus cceseU iiotato 

 et albo terniinato ; rostro rubrn-bninneo; digitis oculisque flavis. 



LoNGiTDDO maris, 3i^ uiic. 



FaLCO C0R0NATU3, Lin. 



The Crowned Eagle, Edwards, Plate 224. 



Imperial Eagle of Africa. — Griffith's Animal Kingdom, vol. vi. p. 230. 



AquiLA corOiNATA, Smith. — South African Quarterly Journal, second series, 



{Adult Male. Plate XL.) 

 Colour. — Head, crest, neck, and under parts, yellowish white ; the thio;hs 

 externallj' variegated with large blackish brown bars and arrow-shaped spots, 

 the points of the latter directed towards the bases of the feathers, internally, 

 like the tarsi, they are marked with delicate umber-brown streaks in the 

 course of the shafts; some of the under tail-coverts crossed with irregular 

 umber-brown bars, the shafts of the feathers of the crest brown. Interscapu- 

 lars and feathers of the back hoary brown, broadly margined with Wjnte tne 

 former lightest ; rump and tail-coverts blackish brown, irregularly barred and 

 broadly tipped with white. Lesser wing coverts blackish brown, clouded or 

 rather irregularly barred with greyish brown, and all broadly edged at 

 and near the point with white Primary quill coverts deep blackish 

 brown, tipped with white, their inner vanes towards quills hoary brown ; 

 secondary c[uill coverts blackish brown, with white points, and several 

 broad brownish grey bars. The inner vanes of the primary quill feathers 

 dingy umber-brown, crossed towards their points with irregular blackish 

 brown bars, and towards the bases by white ones ; the latter towards the 

 inner edge of the feather spreads so as to form nearly the whole of the mar- 

 ginal colour ; outer vanes blackish brown, barred with grey. The inner vanes 

 of the secondary and tertiary quill feathers light brown, fading towards their 

 inner edges into white, and here and there crossed by irregular blackish brown 



