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*+190a. Aquila pomarina hastata (Less.), Voy. Ind. 
Or. Bélang., Zool., p. 217 (1834). [Bengal.] 
Long-legged Eagle. 
Wing ¢ 455-485, 2 495 mm.; bill more 
feeble, tarsi more slender; least wing- 
coverts with small spots of white in 
immature birds. 
Indian 
Peninsula ; 
Burmese 
countries. 
Gen. L. HIERAAETUS Kaup (1844). 
Type by orig. desig. Falco pennata Gmel. 
General characters of Aguila, but still more 
slender ; with or without short occipital crest ; 
tarsi feathered to the toes. 
+191. 
19la. 
Hieraaétus fasciatus fasciatus (Vieill.), Mem. 
Soc. Linn. Paris, ii., pt. 2, p. 152 (1822). 
[Montpellier.| 
Bonelli’s Eagle. 
Wing ¢ 460-490, 2 490-530 mm. ; above 
deep brown, feathers mostly with paler 
margins ; interscapulary space with exten- 
sive white bases to feathers; tail ashy, 
with broad sub-terminal dark brown band, 
and 5 or 6 indistinct bars; below white, 
with blackish-brown shaft stripes, the 
flanks and thighs buffish, barred with black. 
Hieraaétus fasciatus spilogaster+ (Bp.), Rev. 
et Mag. Zool., 1850, p. 487. [Abyssinia, ex 
Du Bus. MS.}. 
African Little Eagle. 
Wing ¢ 448, 2 462 mm.; head without 
crest ; above blackish-brown, mottled with 
white ; below purer white streaked with 
S. Europe 
(S. France and 
Spain to S. 
Russia), 
N. Africa, 
Asia Minor, 
Palestine, 
Mesopotamia, 
Turkestan, 
India, China. 
Tropical Africa ; 
N. to Abyssinia, 
Erythrea, and 
N. Nigeria, 
S. to Angola, 
also Cape 
Colony (rare) ; 
S. Arabia. 
1 H. fasciatus minoy Erlanger from S. Arabia and E. Africa can hardly be 
separable unless spilogaster is considered a different species. 
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