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ACC/PITEES. 



FALCONID.E. 



FALCON I DjE. 



Aquila n.evia (J. F. Gmelin*). 

 THE SPOTTED EAGLE. 



Aqiiila ncevia. 



For the particulars of the occurrence of this addition to 

 the ornitholog}' of the British Islands, I am indebted to the 

 kindness of Mr. Robert 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 Avas copied. " This specimen," observes 



* Falco nmvius, J. F. (Tiuelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 258 (1788). 



