FALCONID^ AQUILA 293 



A female is rather larger, length 36-0 ; wing 25'75 ; tarsus 4-7. 

 , A young bird has the crown and occiput tawny deepening to 

 chestnut on the upper back; the upper tail- coverts whitish tipped 

 with brown, the wing brown, the coverts, scapulars, and secondaries 

 with much paler edges and tips ; tail brown with paler tips ; below, 

 the throat and chest is black with traces of tawny edgings to the 

 feathers, this latter increases on the abdomen and lower tail-coverts ; 

 the thighs are also brown and pale tawny. Younger birds are clear 

 fawn colour above and below. 



Distribution. — Verreaux's Eagle is found in the highlands of 

 Abyssinia and Shoa and reappears in South Africa, but has not 

 hitherto been noticed between these distant points. 



Pig. 96. — Aqmla verreauxi. x |. 



In South Africa it is fairly common in mountainous districts 

 from Table Mountain to Colesberg ; I recently saw a pair within 

 twenty yards of me at Smitwinkel Bay, about five miles south of 

 Simonstown ; it breeds in the Drakensberg of Natal whence it comes 

 down to the midland districts of that Colony, and in the Magalies- 

 berg of the western Transvaal, but it is not known from German 

 south-west Africa or Ehodesia. 



The following are localities in the Cape Colony — about Table 

 Mountain in the Cape district (Layard and Stark), French Hoek 

 in Paarl and Cedarbergen in Clanwilliam (Stark), Worcester, 

 Caledon, Beaufort West, Colesberg (S. A. Mus.), Albany and Bed- 

 ford divisions (Grahamstown Museum), Namaqualand (Andersson). 



