108 



Wing ? 660 mm. ; plumage black, with 

 back, rump and some of the scapulars 

 white ; immature fawn colour, tail uniform. 



tl84. Aquilachrysaetoschrysaeios (Lirm.),S.T>i.i., Europe, S. to 



p. 88 (1758). [Europe = Sweden, apud Pyrenees ; 



Hartert.] Asia Minor. 

 Golden Eagle. 



Wing c? 590-625, ? 650-660 mm. ; general 

 plumage above blackish-brown, with paler 

 margins ; crown brown ; nape and hind 

 neck tawny rufous ; tail blackish at apical 

 fourth, browner towards base, middle ir- 

 regularly banded with grey ; below black- 

 ish with brown bases to the feathers ; in 

 younger birds basal half of tail white, centre 

 mottled brown, apical third black ; nape 

 paler. 



f 184a. Aquila chrysaetos occidentalis, Olphe-Galli- 

 ard, Faune Orn. Eur. Occ, ii., fasc. xviii., 

 p. 23 (Mar. 1889). {Spain.} 

 Spanish Golden Eagle. 



Wing ^580-600, ? 615-680 mm. ; averaging 

 smaller ; plumage darker and duller. 



Spain and 

 N. Africa 

 (Morocco, 

 Algeria, 

 Tunisia). 



f 184b. Aquila chrysaetos daphanea, Hodgs. in 

 Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844). {JSroni. 

 nud. — Nepal.] Menz. Orn. Turkest, 1, p. 75 

 (1888). [Haute Asie.] 

 Himalayan Golden Eagle. 



High Central 

 Asia : 



Himalayas to 

 Tianschau and 

 Altai. 



Larger ; wing 3 640-660, ? 680-730 mm. 

 colour generally brighter. 



