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*tl90a. Aquila pomavina hastata (Less.), Voy. Ind. 

 Or. Belang., Zool., p. 217 (1834). {Bengal.-] 

 Long-legged Eagle. 



Wing S 455-485, ? 495 mm. ; bill more 

 feeble, tarsi more slender ; least wing- 

 coverts with small spots of white in 

 immature birds. 



Indian 

 Peninsula ; 

 Burmese 

 countries. 



Gen. L. HIERAAETUS Kaup (1844). 

 Type by orig. desig. Falco pennata Gmel. 



General characters of Aquila, but still more 

 slender ; with or without short occipital crest ; 

 tarsi feathered to the toes. 



■fl91. Hieraaetusfasciatusfasciatus (Vieill.), Mem. 

 See. Linn. Paris, ii., pt. 2, p. 152 (1822). 

 [Montpellier.'] 

 Bonelli's Eagle. 



Wing S 460-490, ? 490-530 mm. ; above 

 deep brown, feathers mostly with paler 

 margins ; interscapulary space with exten- 

 sive white bases to feathers ; tail ashy, 

 with broad sub- terminal dark brown band, 

 and 5 or 6 indistinct bars ; below white, 

 with blackish-brown shaft stripes, the 

 flanks and thighs huffish, barred with black. 



S. Europe 



(S. France and 



Spain to S. 



Russia), 



N. Africa, 



Asia Minor, 



Palestine, 



Mesopotamia, 



Turkestan, 



India, China. 



191a. Hieraaetus fasciatus spilogaster^ (Bp.),Rev. 

 et Mag. Zool., 1850, p. 487. [Abyssinia, ex 

 Du Bus. MS.]. 

 African Little Eagle. 



Wing 3 448, ? 462 mm. ; head without 

 crest ; above blackish-brown, mottled with 

 white ; below purer white streaked with 



Tropical Africa ; 

 N. to Abyssinia, 

 Erythraea, and 

 N. Nigeria, 

 S. to Angola, 

 also Cape 

 Colony (rare) ; 

 S. Arabia. 



I H. fasciatus minor Erlanger from S. Arabia and E. Africa can hardly be 

 separable unless spilogaster is considered a. different species. 



