84 Mr. W. E. Brooks on some 



2. OXYURUS MASAFUER^. 



3. CiNCLODES FUSCUS. 



4. EUSTEPHANUS LEYBOLDI, Gould. 



5. BUTEO ERYTHRONOTUS. 



But not having been there I cannot affirm that other species 

 do not occur. 



I believe the Buzzard has been attracted by and feeds on 

 the domestic cats with which the island swarms. - These cats 

 having been introduced by former settlers, have increased 

 and multiplied amazingly : they have taken to the bush, eaten 

 up all the goats, and now live upon fish and young seals, and 

 in their turn furnish food to the Buteo. 



VIII. — Notes on some European and Asiatic Eagles. 

 By W. Edwin Brooks, C.E., Dinapore. 



My friend the Rev. Dr. Tristam has lent me an African ex- 

 ample of Aquila msvioides, Cuv., in characteristic tawny plu- 

 mage, upon which I wish to offer a few remarks. 



1. It is totally distinct from the Indian species which has 

 hitherto borne that name. The references to this Indian 

 species in 'The Ibis^ are: — July 1868, pp. 351, 352; April 

 1870, p. 290; July 1870, p. 423; April 1871, p. 245 ; Octo- 

 ber 1871, p. 479 ; and October 1872, pp. 472, 473. It is also 

 described in Mr. Hume^s ' Bough Notes,^ p. 168, as the young 

 of Aquila mevia. 



3. Aquila ncevioides is not a round-nostrilled Marsh-Eagle, 

 like the Indian bird and like the other two Marsh-Eagles, 

 A. ncevia and A. hastata, but is a long-nostrilled Eagle, with 

 vertical nostrils, like A. vindhiana, A. bifasciata, and A. 

 mogilnik. 



3. Its tail is a greyish barred one, like that of A. vind- 

 hiana ; and altogether its affinities are with this last-named 

 species ; but its mode of coloration is distinct, and very much 

 more handsome in every way. In the tawny stage it has even 

 a more distinct black eyebrow than the Indian species called 



