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Wing <J 500-520, ? 520-560 mm. ; general 

 colour fulvous brown, paler on head and 

 neck and below, above with lighter margins 

 to the feathers, especially on wing-coverts ; 

 tail dark brown with fulvous tip and 8 or 9 

 indistinct greyish bars on centre feathers. 



188c. Aquua rapax helisatius (Levaill. jun.) Expl. 

 Sc. Alg. Ois. pi. 2 [not text], (1850) ; text 

 by Loche, i., p.l67 (1867). [Guelma, N.E. 

 Algeria.] 

 Algerian Tawny Eagle. 



Wing S 530-550, ? 540-580 mm. ; head, 

 neck all round and intcr-scapulary region 

 chocolate brown. 



Marocco, 

 Algeria, 

 Tunisia ; 

 ace. Roumania, 

 Sardinia and 

 Spain ? 



*tl89- Aquila clanga Pall., Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., i., 

 p. 351 (1827). [In Rossia Sibiriaque uni- 

 versa.] 

 Greater Spotted Eagle. 



Wing <J 500-520, ? 550-560 mm. ; plumage 

 above and below blackish-brown ; tail 

 unbarred ; younger birds purplish brown, 

 much spotted and streaked with buff above 

 and striped below : tail blackish, barred 

 dark brown. 



E. Europe, from 

 Russia S.W. to 

 Hungary and 

 Balkans ? E. to 

 Turkestan, 

 S. Siberia, 

 N. India and 

 China ; in 

 winter to N.E. 

 Africa, India, 

 Burma ; cas. 

 Brit. Isles. 



■[■190. Aquila pomarina pomanna Brehm, Vog. 

 Deutschl., p. 27 (1831). [Pomerania.] 

 Lesser Spotted Eagle. 



Smaller ; wing S 450-485, ? 490-520 mm. ; 

 plumage browner ; crown and nape creamy 

 brown ; tail feathers with obsolete lighter 

 bars ; younger birds less spotted than those 

 of A . clanga and tail unbarred ; nape patch 

 ochraceous rufous. 



C. Europe from 

 E. Germany, 

 Baltic States 

 and Poland to 

 Bessarabia and 

 Balkans (S. to 

 Greece), 



cas. W. Europe ; 

 in winter to 

 N.E. Africa. 



