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that a few examples of the ludiau Little Spotted Eagle 

 {A. hastata) show a tendency to have large buff areas of 

 plumage. I therefore consider that there are only three 

 species of Spotted Eagles with round nostrils, viz. : 1. Aquila 

 maculata, 2. Aquila pomarina, 3. Aquila hastata. It follows, 

 therefore, that Aquila fulvescens must be sunk as a species 

 and must stand as Aquila maculata, aherr. fulvescens." 



Mr. Rothschild exhibited a series of birds from the island 

 of S. Thome, in the Bight of Benin, and made remarks on 

 some of the species which were peculiar to the island. 



He also called the attention of the meeting to some re- 

 markable specimens of Phalacrocorax chalconotus, illustrating 

 the breeding-plumage of the species, with the tufts of white 

 filamentous plumes above the eyes. The young birds had 

 formerly been described as Phalacrocorax glaucvs, but 

 specimens in intermediate stages of plumage in the Triug 

 Museum showed that P. glaucus and P. chalcunotus were 

 identical. 



Mr. Rothschild exhibited specimens of the Balkan Shore- 

 Lark [Otocurys balcanicu). 



He also exhibited a specimt n of a young bird of Urubi- 

 tinga urubitinga, which had been captured by Mr. Andre at a 

 distance of 200 yards inside the great cave of the Steatornis, 

 at Caripe in Venezuela. 



Mr. Erxst Hartert described a new Spine-tailed Swift 

 as follows : — 



Ch^tura thomensis, sp. n. 



This remarkable new species of Chcetura is smaller than 

 all the other African sj^ecies, and the wings, though fully as 

 long as those of Chcetura sabinei, are much narrower, softer 

 and weaker. It is doubtless the bird mentioned by Mr. 

 Newton, of Lisbon, as Ch. cassini, but no specimen appears 

 to have been procured by him. Ch. cassini is much laro-er 

 and has a much shorter and stiffer tail than Ch. thumensis 



