7184. 
7184a. 
7184b. 
108 
Wing 2 660 mm.; plumage black, with 
back, rump and some of the scapulars 
white ; immature fawn colour, tail uniform. 
Aquila chrysaétos chrysaétos (Linn.), S.N.1., 
p- 88. (1758). [Europe = Sweden, apud 
Hartert.] 
Golden Eagle. 
Wing ¢ 590-625, 2 650-660 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. 
Aquila chrysaétos occidentalis, Olphe-Galli- 
ard, Faune Orn. Eur. Occ., ii., fasc. xviii., 
p- 23 (Mar. 1889). [Spain.] 
Spanish Golden Eagle. 
Wing 3 580-600, 2615-680 mm. ; averaging 
smaller ; plumage darker and duller. 
Aquila chrysaétos daphanea, Hodgs. in 
Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844). (Nom. 
nud.—Nepal.| Menz. Orn. Turkest, 1, p. 75 
(1888). [Haute Asie.] 
Himalayan Golden Eagle. 
Larger ; wing ¢ 640-660, ¢ 680-730 mm. ; 
colour generally brighter. 
Europe, S. to 
Pyrenees ; 
Asia Minor. 
Spain and 
N. Africa 
(Marocco, 
Algeria, 
Tunisia). 
High Central 
Asia : 
Himalayas to 
Tianschau and 
Altai. 
