+1192. 
193. 
194. 
113 
black on breast, and with large spots on 
under tail-coverts; flanks and thighs 
white ; under wing-coverts black. 
Hieraaétus pennatus (Gmel.), S.N.,1., p. 272 
(1788). [ex. Brisson, no loc., type loc. 
sugg. France.] 
Booted Eagle. 
Smaller ; wing 3g 350-370, 2 395-420 mm. ; 
above brown, head and neck isabelline ; 
tail with obsolete darker bars on outer 
feathers ; below white, throat and breast 
washed with fawn and streaked with 
reddish brown or blackish ; species subject 
to variation ; immature birds dull brown 
below with black shaft-stripes, and often a 
white shoulder patch; a phase exists in 
adult birds with the dark under-parts. 
Hieraaétus morphnoides (Gould), P.Z.S., 
1840, p. 161 (1841). [Upper Hunter R., 
N.S.W.] 
Little Eagle. 
Smaller, and with a short occipital crest ; 
wing ad. 380 mm.; above brown, crown 
darker; crest, neck and under-surface 
rufous, with black shaft-streaks; tail 
mottled greyish-brown, with 7 or 8 dark 
brown bars. 
Hieraaétus weiskei (Reichenow), Orn. M.B., 
vil., p. 185 (1900). [Astrolabe Mins.] 
New Guinea Little Eagle. 
Below heavily striped with dark brown. 
S. Europe 
(Portugal and 
Spain to S. 
Russia) ; N. 
Africa (Marocco 
to Tunisia) ; 
C. Asia ; Indian 
Peninsula. 
FE. and W. 
Australia. 
British and 
Dutch 
New Guinea. 
