Mr. R. B. Sharpe's Catalogue of Accipitres. 225 
rities treat as identical with A. rap ax, but which I incline to 
think is separable as a subspecies; and A. vindhiana, which 
perhaps may be most properly considered also a subspecies, 
and which is connected with A. rap ax by A. albicans, the latter 
occupying a position curiously intermediate between A. rapax 
and A. vindhiana, and thus forming one of those nicely ba¬ 
lanced links which, though it is difficult to define, it is inac¬ 
curate to ignore. 
Mr. Sharpe, in his epitome of the habitat of A. rapax, in¬ 
cludes North-western India; but the Eagle from that locality 
which, in common with Canon Tristram* * * § , I referred in 1869 
to A. rapax , I now believe to he referable to A. fulvescens, 
and to be specifically distinct both from A. rapax and from 
A. vindhiana : to this Eagle I shall have occasion hereafter 
more particularly to allude f; I believe it was this incorrect 
identification which led Mr. Sharpe to quote North-western 
India as a locality for A. rapax; and I regret the error which 
has thus obtained additional currency. 
The adult plumage of A. rapax is well represented in Tem- 
minck's f Planches Coloriees/ pi. 455 J, and in the upper figure 
in the plate accompanying Lord Lifford* s paper on the orni¬ 
thology of Spain in f The Ibis 9 for 1865, pi. v. The imma¬ 
ture plumage, but with a slight commencement of change on 
the wing-coverts, is represented in the lower figure of the 
same plate, and also in the figure of the c( Tawny Eagle 39 
given in Dr. Breeds ‘ Birds of Europe 9 §; but neither of these 
two figures appears to me sufficiently to indicate the somewhat 
pale, but clear and decided, fulvous tint which characterizes 
* Vide Ibis for 1870, p. 290, footnote. 
t Mr. Sharpe gives A. fulvescens as a synonym of A. vindhiana , but, I 
think, erroneously. 
f Temminck’s plate shows with great accuracy the character of the 
particoloured feathers, which are remarkable on the wing-coverts of the 
typical South-African A. rapax in its adult stage ; but his figure does not 
sufficiently exhibit the similar markings which usually exist on the sca¬ 
pulars and, to a less extent, on the back and sides of the neck and on the 
upper breast. 
§ This figure is more accurately coloured in the second edition of Dr. 
Bree’s work than in the first. 
