244 FAi^cox. 



184 — WHITE-RUMPED EAGLE. 



LENGTH 20 in. Bill black; cere yellow; crown brown, each 

 feather margined with rufous ; back, scapulars, and wing corerts 

 the same ; some of the last margined, and tipped with pale brown, 

 the others with rufous ; quills dusky, fenuginous brown ; rump as 

 the back, but the margins ferruginous ; upper tail coverts white; tail 

 pale cream-colour, barred with rufous brown, tlie outer feathers 

 palest ; under parts of the body cream-colour, each feather dashed 

 down the middle Avith ferruginous brown, and the shafts of them 

 throughout chestnut; thighs pale ferruginous, the feathers long, 

 reaching to the middle of the legs, which are pale ; claws large, 

 and black. 



The female is 24 in. long. The colours above paler ; rump, and 

 upper tail coverts the same, but the middle of the last dashed with 

 brown ; the under parts of the body nearly white, marked with 

 feiTuginous down the shafts; sides ferruginous, with round white 

 spots ; thigh feathers long, ferruginous in the middle, margined 

 with white ; tail pale brown, three or four of the outer feathers have 

 the base almost white, but barred, as in the male. 



The above inhabits Statenland. — Described from specimens in 

 the collection of Sir Jos. Banks; brought from thence in 1775. 



