AQUILA BELLICOSA. 



AvES. — Plate XLII. — (Middle-ageu Female.) 



A. supra, purpureo-brunnea, pluniis ]iartim imrpurco-griseis tinctis ; cervice infra pcctoreque brunneis ; 

 ventre, cruribusque albis, maculis fasciisque brunneis variogatis ; cauda purpureo-brunnea fasciis 

 septem purpurco-griseis notata, apice albo. 



LoNGiTUDo 36 una. 6 lin. 



Le Griff ard, Levaill. — Ois. d' Afrique, vol. i. plate 1. 



Falco bellicosus, Daud. — Oru. vol. ii. p. 38. — Latham, Ir.'l. Orn. Sujip. ISOl. 



Falco AR3IIGER. — Sliaw's General Zoology, ISOC. 



Colour. — Head, neck, breast, back, rump, upper tail coverts, and lesser 

 wing coverts dull purplish brown, the interscapulars and the feathers of the 

 back and rump, together with the upper tail coverts, and lesser wing coverts, 

 more or less clouded with dull lavender-purple, and tipped with white ; 

 the edges of many of these feathers inclining to yellowish brown, bellj^ vent, 

 under tail-coverts and legs white, variegated with irregular shaped blotches 

 and short transverse stripes of a purplish brown colour, the latter principally 

 confined to the legs ; primary quill coverts and secondary quill feathers purplish 

 brown, the outer vanes of the former and the inner vanes of the latter towards 

 their base clouded with lavender-purple, which colour on the coverts almost 

 forms distinct bars; the points of the last named feathers white; secondary 

 wing coverts yellowish brown clouded with lavender-purple, and tipped with 

 dusky white. Primary quill feathers dusky brown with a strong shade of 

 grey, particularly on the outer vanes ; the inner vanes with a number of 

 umber-brown bars. Tail above barred purplish brown and dull lavender- 

 purple, eight bars of the former colour and seven of the latter; beneath white, 

 barred with brown ; the tips of all the feathers white. Bill and claws a 

 livid horn colour, with a yellow blotch on each side of base of lower mandible 

 towards the angle of the mouth. Eyes yellow. Toes livid greenish-yellow. 



Form, &c. — Figure moderately robust, somewhat intermediate between 

 that of the more typical eagles and 3Iorp/utius ; feathers of occiput slightly 

 elongated and forming a rudimentary crest. Bill strongly curved towards the 



