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ably strong, compared with the size of the bird, and the general 
deep brown colour is always very conspicuous, when compared 
with the ashy hue of A. Nisus; still I think it wants further 
proof, until the species is firmly established. 
Mr. Blyth in his commentary (Ibis, 1866, p. 239) says, “ Dr. 
Jerdon writes word, that A. Wisoides is not rare in the interior 
of the Himalaya,” and it is not unlikely that Dr. Jerdon observ- 
ed it in the same portion of the hills, where my specimen was 
procured, for he visited the Sutlej valley in 1864. The species 
eannot be easily mistaken for 4. Virgatus, which is compara- 
‘tively very common and much larger.”’ 
The passages italicized, seem to me to point to these specimens 
being Virgatus after all, and in regard to Dr. Stoliczka’s con- 
cluding sentence, I can only say that I have above given maxima 
and minima dimensions, derived from a large series, and that 
these sufficiently prove that Virgatus is not only, not much 
larger, but often not at all larger. 
1 hope having said this much, that our numerous observers 
will thoroughly work the question out. NV. Gularis, Schlegel, Ja- 
pan, may be a good species, but Schlegel’s Nipal specimen 
renders this dubious. In the distinctness of A. Virgatus and A. 
Nisoides, Blyth, I confess that I have at present no great belief. 
No. 26. Aquila Chryseztus, Liv. 
THE GoLpEN HAGLeE. 
As to the breeding of this noble bird within our limits, I have 
no information. During all the many trips that I have myself 
made in the interior of the Himalayas, and in all the collec- 
tions of Himalayan birds that I have examined, I have never 
seen a specimen. Livery so called Golden Eagle, which has as 
yet been sent me, has proved to be A. Imperialis, in the dark 
third stage of plumage. Capt. Cock and others feel sure that they 
have seen it, but none of them seem as yet to have bagged one. 
Mr. Hodgson, I am told, sent specimens from Nepal; but I 
have been unable to learn whether they were shot there or 
brought in from Thibet. 
As far as I yet know, this bird is of such excessive rarity in 
the Himalayas, south of the snows, as scarcely to deserve a 
place in our list. Mr. R. Thompson says—“‘I have seen a 
large Eagle very similar in size to the adult A. Chrysetus, but 
of a dark brown colour with two large moon-shaped whitish 
spots on each wing, near the base of the primaries; also with 
the tail white, rmged with a band of dark brown. These 1 think 
