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 ACCIPITRES. 



FALCON ID j;. 



FALVONIDyE. 



ii;iu\f 



Aquila n^via (J. F. Gmelin*). 

 THE SPOTTED EAGLE. 



Aquila n/evia. 



For the particulars of the occurrence of this addition to 

 the ornithology of the British Islands, I am indebted to the 

 kindness of Mr. Eohert Davis, Junior, who sent me also a 

 coloured drawing made from the bird now preserved in the 

 Museum of the University of Dublin, from which the repre- 

 sentation here given was copied. " This specimen," observes 



* Falco nmim, J. F. Gnielin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 258 (1788). 



