188c. 
*+189. 
+190. 
111 
Wing 3g 500-520, 2 520-560 mm. ; general 
colour fulvous brown, paler on head and 
neck and below, above with lighter margins 
to the feathers, especially on wing-coverts ; 
tail dark brown with fulvous tip and 8 or 9 
indistinct greyish bars on centre feathers. 
Aquiva rapax belisarius (Levaill. jun.) Expl. 
Sc. Alg. Ois. pl. 2 [not text], (1850) ; text 
by Loche, i., p.167 (1867). [Guelma, N.E. 
Algeria. | 
Algerian Tawny Eagie. 
Wing 3 530-550, 2 540-580 mm. ; head, 
neck all round and inter-scapulary region 
chocolate brown. 
Aquila clanga Pall., Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., 1., 
p. 351 (1827). [In Rossia Sibinnaque uni- 
versa. | 
Greater Spotted Eagle. 
Wing g 500-520, 2 550-560 mm. ; plumage 
above and below blackish-brown; tail 
unbarred ; younger birds purplish brown, 
much spotted and streaked with buff above 
and striped below: tail blackish, barred 
dark brown. 
Aquila pomarina pomarina Brehm, Vég. 
Deutschl., p. 27 (1831). [Pomerania.] 
Lesser Spotted Eagle. 
Smaller ; wing g 450-485, 2 490-520 mm. ; 
plumage browner ; crown and nape creamy 
brown ; tail feathers with obsolete lighter 
bars ; younger birds less spotted than those 
of A. clanga and tail unbarred ; nape patch 
ochraceous rufous. 
Marocco, 
Algeria, 
Tunisia ; 
acc. Roumania, 
Sardinia and 
Spain ? 
E. Europe, from 
Russia S.W. to 
Hungary and 
Balkans? E. to 
Turkestan, 
S. Siberia, 
N. India and 
China; in 
winter to N.E. 
Africa, India, 
Burma; cas. 
Brit. Isles. 
C. Europe trom 
E. Germany, 
Baltic States 
and Poland to 
Bessarabia and 
Balkans (S. to 
Greece), 
cas. W. Europe ; 
in winter to 
N.E. Africa. 
