484 Mr. J. D. de la Touche on the 



[Mr. de la Touclie informs me that all the examples he has 

 seen have been immature birds.— H. H. S.] 



4-174. Aquila NiEviA, Briss. [13.] 



I shot a Lesser Spotted Eagle on the lagoons just behind 

 Swatow on 20th March^ 1887, and saw another Eagle in the 

 spring of 1888, and two on the coast in the beginning of 

 February 1889^ which I believe were o£ the same species, 



Pere David considers this species to be the rarest of the 

 Eagles of China. 



[Mr. Styan (Ibis, 1891, p. 487) considers the Spotted 

 Eagles of the Yangtse basin to be A. clang a ; Pere David and 

 Mr. de la Touche put them down as A. navia. They seem 

 to have been oftener seen than obtained. One would expect 

 A. clanya to occur in the north of China, and A. hastata to 

 be the southern form. Messrs. de la Touche and Styan will 

 do well, on their return to China, to devote some attention 

 to this question. — H. H. S.] 



T- 175. NisAiiiTus FAsciATUs (Vicill.). 

 Foochow. Styan, Ibis, 1887, p. 232. 



y 176. Haliaetus ALBiciLLA (Linn.). [15.] 



I saw a good many Sea-Eagles at Foochow in the autumn 

 of 1886, which were probably of this species. Most of them 

 were flying high overhead, and evidently going south, but 

 several were seen about the river, some of them at fairly close 

 quarters. Neither I nor any of the men who used to shoot 

 for me were able to obtain a specimen. 



A Sea-Eagle seen on the Swatow coast on 24th July was 

 probably either this Eagle or an immature H. hucogaster. 



■ 177. Haliaetus LEUCOGASTER (Gm.). 



Foochow. Styan, Ibis, 1887, p. 232. 



The immature example mentioned by me (Ibis, 1887, 

 p. 469) as being perhaps H. albicilla turned out to be an 

 immature H. leucogaster. It was shot on the 2nd November. 

 I saw a Sea-Eagle at Pagoda anchorage in July 1886, which 

 was also, I believe, of the same species. 



