SHORT-TOED EAGLE. 
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Rap aces — Diuiusms. 
FALCONIDJE. 
Genus — Circaetus. ( Vieillot.J 
Generic Characters. — Bill rather short, gently curving from the base, much 
hooked at the tip; upper mandible rounded, compressed at the sides. 
Nostrils oval, oblique. Wings long. The first three primaries emarginate, 
third longest. Tail long, nearly square; tarsi long, plumed below the heel, 
and the bare parts covered with small hexagonal scales. Feet small; toes 
short, scutulate at base; lateral toes nearly equal; claws about same length, 
short, and tolerably curved. 
SHOKT-TOED EAGLE. 
Circaetus g alliens. 
Circaetus galicus, 
Circa etos gallicus, 
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Falco brachydactylus, 
•" galticus, 
" leucopsis, 
Aquila brachydactyla, 
Aigle Jean-le- Blanc, 
Schlangen bussard, 
VlEILLOT. CUVIER, 
Lesson. Degland. 
Bonaparte. Schlegel. Buffon. 
Gould. 
Wolf. Temminck. Bree, ist. ed. 
Schinz. 
Gmelin. Latham. 
Bechstein. 
Wolf, in Meyer and Wolf's "Tas. 
Deutsch. Vogel." 
Of the French. 
Of the Germans. 
Specific Characters. — Toes short, nearly equal ; head large, round ; eyes very 
large; tarsi naked. 
Measurement. — Length of adult male twenty-four inches. — Temminck. 
The Short-toed Eagle forms the sole European representative of the 
genus Circaetus of Vieillot. It is placed by Schlegel after the Buzzards, 
