A v e s .— P lates XL. and XLI.
A. capite, cervice, partibusque inferioribus flavo-albis; cruribus nigro-brunneis maculatis ; dorso griseo-
brunneo, plumis albo-marginatis ; uropygio, caudseque tectricibus superioribus nigro-brunneis albo-
fasciatis; alis subbrevibus; cauda longd, nigro brunnea, dimidio ultimo fasciis tribus cceseis notato
et albo terminate; rostro rubro-brunneo; digitis oculisque flavis.
Longitudo maris, 34^ unc.
Falco coronatus, Lin.
The Crowned Eagle, Edwards, Plate 224.
Imperial E agle of Africa.—Griffith’s Animal Kingdom, vol. vi. p. 230.
Aqtjila coronata, Smith.-—South African Quarterly Journal, second series.
(Adult Male. Plate XL.);;,-’;
C o l o u r— Head, crest, neck, and under parts, yellowish white ; the thighs
externally variegated with large blackish brown bars and arrow-shaped spots,
the points of the latter directed towards the bases of the feathers, internally,
like the tarsi, they are marked with delicate umber-brown streaks in the
course of the shafts; some of the under tail-coverts crossed with irregular
umber-brown bars, the shafts of the feathers of the crest brown. Interscapulars
and feathers of the back hoary brown, broadly margined with wane, tne
former lightest; rump and tail-coverts blackish brown, irregularly barred and
broadly tipped with white. Lesser wing coverts blackish brown, clouded or
rather irregularly barred with greyish brown, and all broadly edged at
and near the point with white. Primary quill. coverts deep blackish
brown, tipped with white, their inner vanes towards quills hoary brown;
secondary quill- coverts blackish brown, with white points, and several
broad brownish grey bars. The inner vanes of the primary quill feathers
dingy umber-brown, crossed towards their points with irregular blackish
brown bars, and towards the bases by white ones; the latter towards the
inner edge of the feather spreads so as to form nearly the whole of the marginal
colour ; outer vanes blackish brown, barred with grey. The inner vanes
of the secondary and tertiary quill feathers light brown, fading towards their
inner edges into white, and here and there crossed by irregular blackish brown