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66.— CHEELA EAGLE. 



Fako Cheela, Ind.Orn.'x. p. 14. Daiid.n. p. 44; Shaw' s Zool. \\\. p. 69. 

 Cheela Falcon, Gen. Syn. Sup. p. 33. 



LENGTH two feet or more, and stout in bnlk ; bill blue at the 

 l^ase, with a black tip ; irides pale yellow ; plumage deep brown ; 

 before the eyes marked with white; head feathers somewhat 

 elongated; wing coverts spotted with white; quills dark; tail the 

 same, crossed with a bar of white, Hin. in breadth ; thighs and belly 

 paler than the upper parts, the first spotted with white ; legs pale 

 yellow, scaly; claws black. 



This is not uncommon in Lidia, and called Cheela. In a 

 drawing of one of these, I obsei-ve the wing coverts without spots ; 

 cere and irides yellow ; plumage deep brown, paler beneath ; the 

 feathers of the hindhead and neck lengthened into a sort of tuft, 

 fi'inged at the end with white ; breast, belly, thighs, and vent, marked 

 with roundish spots, each surrounded, or slightly margined with 

 black ; tail short, crossed in the middle with a broad cream-coloured 

 bar, and with paler coloured spots on the margin. These are pro- 

 bably allied to the Noble Eagle. 



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