7187a. 
7188. 
7188a. 
+188b. 
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scapulars and tail blackish-brown, latter 
with fulvous tip and obsolete ashy bars. 
Immature ashy-brown, tail darker, with 
terminal band of fawn ; wing with 2 light 
ochreous bars. 
Aquila mpalensis orientalis Cab., J. f. O. 
1854, p. 369, note. [Sarepta, Volga.] 
Western Steppe Eagle. 
Smaller ; wing g 520-560, 2 580-610 mm. 
Aquila rapax vapax (Temm.) Pl. 
livr. 76, pl. 455 (1828). 
lL’ Afrique.) 
Tawny Eagle. 
Col., 
[Pie. merid. de 
Wing 3g 508, 2 558 mm.; general colour 
above and below tawny to rufous brown ; 
head and neck somewhat marked with 
darker brown ; scapulars and wing-coverts 
darker brown, blotched with pale brown ; 
quills and tail blackish-brown, with indica- 
tions of greyish bars ; under parts streaked 
with darker brown. Immature tawny, 
tail brown tipped with fulvous. 
Aquila rapax albicans (Riipp.), Neue Wir- 
belt, p. 34, pl. 13 (1835). [Prov. Simien, 
Abys.]| 
Riippell’s Tawny Eagle. 
Wing ¢ 490-520, 2 520-560 mm.; adult 
rather darker brown; immature general 
colour pale clay or ochraceous colour. 
Aquila rapax vindhiana Frankl. P.Z.S., 
pt. 1, p. 114 (1831). [Vindhya Muins., 
Central India.] 
Indian Tawny Eagle. 
Steppes of S.E 
Europe and W. 
Asia ; in winter 
to Palestine and 
Sudan. 
Africa, from 
Cape Colony 
N. to C. and E. 
Africa and 
Angola. 
N.E. Africa 
(Abysinia, 
Erythrea, 
Somaliland, 
Kordofan) ; 
S.W. Arabia. 
Indian 
Peninsula and 
Himalayas ; 
Persian 
Baluchistan. 
