113 



black on breast, and with large spots on 

 under tail-coverts ; flanks and thighs 

 white ; under wing-coverts black. 



*f 192. Hieraaetus pennatus (Gmel.), S.N., i., p. 272 

 (1788). [ex. Brisson, no loc, tj^e loc. 

 sugg. France.l 

 Booted Eagle. 



Smaller ; wing $ 350-370, ? 395-420 mm. ; 

 above brown, head and neck isabelline ; 

 tail with obsolete darker bars on outer 

 feathers ; below white, throat and breast 

 washed with fawn and streaked with 

 reddish brown or blackish ; species subject 

 to variation ; immature birds dull brown 

 below with black shaft-stripes, and often a 

 white shoulder patch ; a phase exists in 

 adult birds with the dark under-parts. 



S. Europe 

 (Portugal and 

 Spain to S. 

 Russia) ; N. 

 Africa (Marocco 

 to Tunisia) ; 

 C. Asia ; Indian 

 Peninsula. 



193. Hieraaetus motphnoides (Gould), P.Z.S., 

 1840, p. 161 (1841). [Upper Hunter R., 



N.S.W.-] 

 Little Eagle. 



Smaller, and with a short occipital crest ; 

 wing ad. 380 mm. ; above brown, crown 

 darker ; crest, neck and under-surface 

 rufous, with black shaft-streaks ; tail 

 mottled greyish-brown, with 7 or 8 dark 

 brown bars. 



E. and W. 

 Australia. 



194. Hieraaetus weiskei (Reichenow), Orn. M.B., British and 

 viii., p. 185 (1900). [Astrolabe Mtns.] Dutch 



New Guinea Little Eagle. New Guinea. 



Below heavily striped- with dark brown. 



