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AQUILA EAPAX. 



(TAWNY EAGLE.) 



Falco rapaw, Temm. PI. Col. i. livr. 76, pi. 455 (1828). 



Falco senegallus, Cuv. Regne Anim. i. p. 326 (1829). 



Falco ncevioides, Cuv. ut supra (1829). 



Aquila clioka, Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ. i. p. 114 (1830). 



Aquila rapax (Temm.), Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 37 (1831). 



Aquila vulturina, Benn. Gard. and Men. Zool. Soc. ii. p. 288 (1831). 



Aquila senegallus (Cuv.), G. R. Gray, Gen. of B. i. p. 14 (1845). 



Aquila ncevioides (Cuv.), G. E. Gray, torn. cit. p. 13 (1845). 



Falco belisarius, Levaill. Expl. Sci. Alger. Ois. pi. 2 (1850). 



% Aquila raptor, A. Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 13. 



Aquila variegata, L. Brehm, Naumannia, 1856, p. 267. 



Aquila substriata, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 6 (1856). 



Aquila lestris, L. Brehm, Ber. orn. Versamml. Stuttg. 1860, p. 55. 



Aquila culleni, Bree, B. of Eur. 2nd ed. i. p. 89 (1875). 



Figurce notabiles. 



Temm. I.e.; Loche, 1. c.; Lilford, Ibis, 1865, pi. v.; Bree, B. of Eur. 2nd ed. i. pis. to 

 pp. 88, 89, and 93. 



Ad. capite, collo, dorso et uropygio ochraceo-isabellinis, vix saturate fusco notatis : scapularibus et tectricibus 

 alarum saturate fuscis vix purpureo nitentibus et ochraceo-fusco notatis : remigibus nigro-fuseis, 

 secundariis in pogonio interno indistincte griseo fasciatis : cauda nigro-fusca vix griseo lavata, rectri- 

 cibus centralibus vix fasciatis : corpore subtus ochraceo-isabellino- rufescente, gutture, abdomine et 

 hypochondriis valde fusco striatis : rostro corneo, cera flava : iride fusca : pedibus flavis. 



Adult Female (S. Africa). Head, neck, back, and rump creamy ochreous slightly marked with deep brown ; 

 scapulars and wing-coverts deep brown with a purplish gloss, heavily blotched with ochreous clay- 

 brown, most of the feathers being particoloured, quills blackish brown, the secondaries indistinctly 

 barred with greyish on the inner web ; tail blackish brown with a greyish tinge, the central rectrices 

 with indications of bars ; underparts warm creamy ochreous, the throat, flanks, and abdomen broadly 

 striped with warm brown, the feathers on these parts having the sides brown and a broad central 

 stripe only ochreous; bill horn-blue ; cere yellow; iris brown; feet yellow. Total length about 

 26'5 inches, culmen 2'5, wing 20"0, tail 10 - 0, tarsus 3 - 6. 



Adult (Kustendji, now alive at Antwerp, fide J. H. Gurney, Ibis, 1877, p. 228) . " Iris hazel ; cere, gape, 

 and feet rather dull yellow ; the crown of the head and back of the neck are bright rufescent fulvous, 

 but with the rufous tint decidedly paler than in adult South- African specimens, and more resembling 

 the colour of those parts in the South- African bird when immature ; the ground-colour of the mantle 

 generally is of a similar hue to the head and neck ; but the interscapular and upper scapular feathers 



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