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AQITILA CLANGA. 



(LARGER SPOTTED EAGLE.) 



1 Spotted Eagle, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 258 (1781). 



IFaleo maculatus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 258 (1788). 



Aquila clancja, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 351 (1811). 



Aquila fusca, C. L. Brehm, Lehrb. Naturg. eur. Vog. i. p. 16 (1823). 



Aquila bifasciata, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 25 (1831, nee Gray). 



Aquila vittata, Hodgs. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844). 



Aquila unicolor, L. Brehm, Allg. deutsch. naturh. Zeit. ii. p. 12 (1856). 



I Aquila fulviventris, L. Brehm, torn. cit. p. 14 (1856). 



1 Aquila dubia, L. Brehm, ut supra (1856). 



Falco clanga (Pall.), J. F. Naumann, Naturg. Vog. Deutschl. xiii. p. 40 (1860). 



Schelladler, grosser Schreiadler, German. 



Figures notabiles. 



Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 342 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 8 ; id. B. of G. Brit. i. pi. 3 ; 

 Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 26; Cab. Journ. f. Orn. 1874, tab. 4. figs. 1, 2. 



d ad. saturate fuscus, corpore supra vix purpureo metallico nitente : remigibus et rectricibus nigro-fuscis, 

 his centralibus vix cinereo lavatis : supracaudalibus et subcaudalibus albo notatis : rostro corneo : cera, 

 et pedibus flavis : iride fusca. 



S ad. mari similis sed major. 



Juv. saturate fuscus: scapularibus et tectricibus alarum majoribus et medianis versus apicem maculis magnis 

 ovatis fusco-cervinis notatis, tectricibus alarum minoribus eodem colore guttatis : remigibus secundariis 

 conspicue griseo terminatis : uropygii plumis et supracaudalibus conspicue fusco-cervino terminatis, 

 harum nonnullis fere albis : cauda nigro-fusca, fusco-griseo terminata : corpore subtus vix chocolatino 

 tincto et rufescente fusco striato : tarsi plumis saturate fuscis, albido notatis : subcaudalibus ochraceo- 

 cervinis. 



Adult Male (Etawah, India) . Entire plumage dark blackish brown, the upper parts with a metallic purplish 

 gloss ; quills darker blackish brown ; tail unbarred, the central feathers slightly washed with greyish 

 towards the outer part of the web ; upper and under tail-coverts slightly marked with white ; bill dark 

 horn; cere and feet yellow; iris brown. Total length about 27 inches, culmen 2 - 35, wing 20"2, tail 

 ll/O, tarsus 4"45. 



Young Male (Etawah). Differs from the adult in being very profusely spotted with brownish buff; scapulars 

 and wing-coverts closely spotted with large ovate spots, those on the lesser coverts being rather smaller 

 and drop-shaped ; secondaries broadly terminated with greyish ; feathers on the rump and upper tail- 



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