326 Mr. J. H. Giimey's Notes on 



that he considered it " not improbable '' that the figure 

 of Aquila fulvescens, above referred to, represented the same 

 North-west Indian Eagle which had then been recently (but, 

 as was subsequently shown, erroneously) identified with A. 

 rapax. Such I believe to be the fact ; and I now agree with 

 the view which was enunciated in 1873 by Mr. W. E. Brooks*, 

 that this Eagle, which Dr. Jerdon correctly identified with 

 Dr. Gray^s Aquila fulvescens, is specifically distinct both from 

 A. rapax and from A. vindhiana, and tliat A. fulvescens must 

 be recognized as a good and valid species. 



Of two specimens, one adult and the other immature, which 

 Mr. Brooks sent to England in 1869, I saw, if my memory 

 serves me correctly, the adult only ; this specimen, which 

 Mr. Brooks informs me is the only one in adult plumage 

 which has been obtained since the rediscovery of the species, 

 was sent back to India, where it now remains in the posses- 

 sion of Mr. Hume. I have therefore had no opportunity of 

 reexamining it ; but, through the obliging intervention of Mr. 

 Brooks, I have recently had the loan of an immature male 

 and female belonging to Mr. John Hancock ; and I found 

 them so very different from the immature stage of any other 

 Eagle with which I am acquainted, that I could not hesitate 

 to acknowledge them as quite distinct both from A. rapax 

 and from A. vindhiana. Coupling this fact with that of the 

 agreement of these specimens with the bird figured by Gray 

 under the name of Aquila fulvescens, I cannot doubt that this 

 name is rightly applicable to the present species, and is not, 

 as has been supposed, a synonym of A. vindhiana. 



Previously to the identification of this species with A. ful- 

 vescens, some interesting descriptive notes respecting it were 

 contributed by Mr. Brooks to ' The Ibis ' for 1868, p. 351, and 

 for 1870, p. 290, and by Mr. Anderson to the P.Z.S. for 1871, 

 p. 687. These notes may, I think, be appropriately supple- 

 mented by the following description of the adult specimen 

 already referred to, for which I am indebted to the kind- 

 ness of Mr. Brooks : — 



* Vide Proc. Asiatic Society of Bengal for November 1873, p. 173, 

 and Ibis, 1874, p. 84. 



