Genus Aquila
Numerous species of this genus exist in Asia and Europe; the form also occurs in Africa, and in North America; so far as I am aware it is not found in South America, and two species are all that are known in Australia.
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Aquila fucosa
This fine Eagle ranges over the whole of the southern portion of Australia and Van Diemen’s Land, but I have no positive evidence of its having been seen in the intertropical regions of the country.
Vultur audax, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. ii.
Aquila cuneicaudata, Brehm, Isis, 1845, p. 356.
Aquila (Uroaëtus) audax, Kaup, Classif der Säug, und Vög., p. 12.
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Aquila Morphnoïdes
A beautiful representative of the Aquila pennata of Europe and India. Since the discovery of this bird at Yarrundi in New South Wales, when I obtained only a single specimen, T. C. Eyton, Esq. has received a second example in a collection obtained at Port Phillip, and a third was procured by Captain Sturt at the Depôt in South Australia.
