BONELLI'B EAGLE. 83 
RAPACES — DlURNJE. 
FALCONIDM 
Genus Aquila. (Brisson.) 
BONELLI'S EAGLE. 
Aquila bonellii. 
Aquila bonellii, Schlegel. Bonaparte. Gray. 
". fasciata, Vieillot. Degland. 
Falco bonellii, Temminck. Marmora. Bree, ist. Ed. 
" " Ch. Bonaparte. 
" Keyserling and Blasius. 
•" " Schinz. Gould. 
U aigle a queue barree, Of the French. 
Specific Characters. — Beak small; claws powerful; tail square, covered by 
the wings within two inches of its end. Legs long, entirely covered with 
feathers. 
Measurement. — Length of adult male two feet. Length of adult female 
two feet six inches. — Temminck. 
Bonelli's Eagle inhabits principally the south of Europe, being 
found commonly in Greece and Spain. It also occurs in Italy, Sar- 
dinia, and the south of France; in all of which countries it breeds, 
and is a permanent inhabitant. It is occasionally seen, according to 
Heuglin, in autumn, winter, and spring, on the borders of the lakes 
in Lower Egypt, in Fajum, and thence along the Nile and into Arabia, 
according to Keyserling and Blasius. Antinori says it is common in 
Egypt and Lower Nubia; he killed a young male at Sennar in Sep- 
tember. Brehm's Aquila TViedii of Arabia Petrsea, obtained in 
December, 1852, at Tor, certainly belongs to this species. Hume 
gives a good account of its several plumages in India, and records 
with great gusto the realization of all his previous predictions that the 
egg figured in my "Birds of Europe," from the De Mur's collection, 
was not that of A. Bonelli. In Europe, however, and Bulgaria, coloured 
