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PALCONID^. 



Young Male. — Above brilliant purplish brown ; head and neck rather 

 duller, with lanceolate apical streaks of dingy buff on the nape and 

 hind neck ; wing-coverts purplish brown like back, with a few dull white 

 longitudinal streaks on the median coverts, much larger and forming 

 distinct oval spots on the primary and greater coverts, and tips of the 

 scapulars. Quills blackish ; secondaries browner with obsolete blackish 

 bars, and oval markings as the scapulars ; lower back and rump with 

 distinct triangular spots of ochraceous buff; the upper tail-coverts almost 

 uniform buffy- white'; tail feathers blackish, shading into brown towards 

 the end, and tipped with whity brown with 3 — 4 black bars near the tips ; 

 under surface of body blackish; the chin browner; breast feathers with 

 pale brown mesial streaks, more ochraceous on the abdomen and leg 

 feathers. Under tail-coverts ochraceous buff ; under wing-coverte 

 uniform blackish ; axillaries browner. 



Length.— 2Q— 29: inches, wing 20—21, tail 10—10-5, tarsus 3-9. 



Adult Male. — Smaller than female; length 26 — 27, wings 20 — 20'5, 

 tail 10, tarsus 3'6. The female is a powerful bird, and is 29 inches 

 in length, the wing being 21-4, tail ITS, tarsus 4' 2. — (Sharps, Cat. 

 Ace.) 



Hah. — Sind, Persia, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Bengal, Kutch, and 

 Guzerat; also the Concan and Deccan, Malabar, and Southern India. 

 Breeds in Sind during April and May. 



Aquila vindhiana, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 114; Strichl. Orn. 

 8yn. p. 5;<; Sharpe, Cat. Ace. p. 244. Aquila punctata. Gray, in Or. 

 8f Hard: III. Ind. Zool. i. pi. 16. Aquila fusca, id. op. cit. ii. pi. 26. 

 Aquila fulvescens, id. op. cit. ii. pi. 29 ; Jerd. B. of Ind. i. p. 60, 

 No. 29; Hume, Bough Notesi, i. p. 178; Straij Feathers, i. p, 158; 

 Murray, Hdhk., Zool, Src, Sind, p. 109. Wohhab, Hind. ; Ukab, Sind.— 

 The Tawny Eagle, 



Young. —Above glossy pm-plish brown with distinct fulvous tips to 

 the feathers, broader on lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts; head 

 and neck all round and entire under parts greyish mouse colour, with 

 distinct points to all the feathers of the head and neck, absent on the 

 under surface, excepting a few remains on the tips of the abdominal and 

 lower throat feathers ; lores and chin whitish, with narrow black shaft- 

 lines, the latter also apparent on the cheeks and ear-coverts, which are 

 mouse grey, like the breast; tarsal feathers and under tail-coverts 

 more fulvescent; under wing-coverts mouse grey with pale fulvous 

 tips ; upper wing-coverts ashy brown, with a very slight purplish gloss, 

 but not so dark as the back, nor so grey as the head, though tipped 

 like the latter with fulvous ; greater and primary coverts, as well as the 

 secondaries, deep brown, with whitish ends ; primaries black, slightly 

 shaded with brown near the base ; lower surface of wing ashy brown, 

 blackish towards tips of primaries ; the inner webs of all slightly 

 mottled with greyish. Tail purplish brown, tipped with buffy white ; 

 all the feathers shadedwith ashy grey, forming indistinct bars on the 

 centre feathers, on which remains of eleven or twelve can be counted. 



Length.~-28 inches, wing 2075, tail 11, tarsus 3-2. 



