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of coverts tipped with fulvous-white, forming two conspicuous bars on 

 the wing ; lower tail-coverts also fulvous-white, and tail tipped with the 

 same : wing twenty-two inches. A rare species, inhabiting mountain- 

 ous territory, and chiefly the Himalaya. Capt. Phayre has favoured the 

 Society with a very fine specimen from Arracan. — 5, Aq. ncevia, (Gm,) ; 

 1 Spotted Eagle,' ' Rough-footed Eagle,' and ■ Brown-backed Eagle, Var. 

 A', of Latham. A beautiful and very variable species in its colouring, 

 allied in form to the last, but smaller ; and larger, but less robust, than 

 the next. Fine adult males are richly empurpled brown, with fulvous- 

 white terminal stripes, more or less developed, on the interscapularies, 

 scapularies, and smaller wing- coverts ; larger and pure white spots on the 

 greater coverts, and two white bars tipping the secondaries and largest 

 coverts, as in Aq. bifasciata ,- tibial plumes similarly spotted, the under 

 tail-coverts and generally the short tarsal plumes white, and the abdomen 

 streaked with fulvous ; cere, orbits, and toes, beautiful yellow : wing 

 generally about twenty inches. Others have the streaks of the upper 

 parts much more developed, but the white dingy and subdued, and 

 the dark colour generally paler : such are mostly females ; and 

 others again, especially of the latter sex, are dull brown throughout 

 (inclusive of the lower tail- coverts), with sometimes paler head and 

 neck-hackles, the latter being however generally, though still not 

 always, tipped paler. This Eagle is very common in the Bengal Soon- 

 derbuns, and I have seen it also from the Himalaya, and from Central 

 India. — 6, Aq.fulvescens, fusca, and punctata, Gray and Hardwicke : Aq. 

 vindhiana, Franklin. Smaller and more robust than the last, a miniature 

 of Aq. mogilnik ; wing eighteen or nineteen inches, rarely twenty. Some 

 (females ?) are uniformly deep fulvous-brown throughout : others light 

 fulvous, brightest upon the head and throat, obscured and dingy on the 

 back and scapularies, and whitish below, with dark shafts and bases of 

 feathers ; these appear to be the young : but the most characteristic 

 plumage (that of the adult male ?) is tawney or fulvous -brown, more 

 fulvous on the neck-hackles, which are tipped paler ; head and throat 

 dusky, the coronal feathers tipped paler ; wings, breast, and lower-parts, 

 deep fuscous, the breast slightly speckled — and the belly and wings 

 spotted and streaked — with light tawny-brown ; wing-bars, and tail- 

 tip, as in the two preceding species. Common in the plains of Upper 

 India, and along the banks of the Ganges above Monghyr, also in the 



