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Eagles preserved in the Norwich Museum, for which Dr. R. 

 Brehm proposed the name of Aquila adalberti, and also a third 

 Spanish Eagle, then in the collection of Mr. J. H, Gurney, Jan., 

 by whom it was subsequently presented to the Norwich Museum, 

 were in my opinion specimens of A. ncevioides. 



I have recently reexamined these specimens, with especial re- 

 ference to the mode of diagnosis suggested by Mr. Anderson, 

 and, after doing so, have arrived at the conclusion that all three 

 are, in reality, examples of Aquila imperialis in immature dress, 

 greatly faded by exposure to sun and weather. 



I shall therefore feel obliged by your insertion of this correc- 

 tion, and am indebted to the two ornithologists to whom I have 

 already referred for calling attention to the subject. 



I am yours &c., 



J. H. Gurney. 



Totnes, 9th September, 1872. 



Sir, — So little appears to be known about the range of 

 Emberiza huttoni, Blyth, that it may be worth while to record 

 the fact of the species having been obtained in China. Accord- 

 ing to Jerdon, this Bunting is only certainly known from the 

 north-west of India, although it may be an occasional straggler 

 to the western part of that country. Its occurrence, therefore, 

 so far east as Canton is of some interest. The specimen which 

 came into my hands was killed by my friend Mr. Samuel Bligh, 

 now in Ceylon ; and by some accident, either there or in Eng- 

 land, this bird (having no label) was placed with specimens of 

 Ceylonese origin instead of with those collected in China. As 

 no Bunting had yet been obtained in Ceylon, I sent the skin 

 back to Mr. Bligh asking for information about it ; for it was 

 not desirable to include it in my ' Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Ceylon ^ without good authority. He writes to me, in I'eply : — 

 " I recognized the Bunting at once -, I shot it in a dry paddy- 

 field to the north-east of Fatshan, in the province of Canton, 

 China, in December 1868. There were many species in the 

 field; and I think I shot four kinds that morning. They were 



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