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the feathers on the middle of the back are likewise spotted, 

 but of a pale buff colour/^ It should be added that G-melia^s 

 name and details are taken from Latham^ so that it is per- 

 fectly correct to say that Falco maculatus of Gmelin is 

 founded on Latham's Spotted Eagle. The only objection to 

 identifying the name maculatus with the large Spotted Eagle 

 is that the length is said by Latham to be two feet, whilst 

 the large Spotted Eagle measures more. But, as Latham's 

 measurement was taken from a stuffed specimen, the ob- 

 jection appears to me of no weight in face of the exact 

 correspondence of Latham's description with the young 

 Spotted Eagle. 



The name of Aquila clanga, Pallas (Zoogr. Ros.-As. i. 

 p. 351), has been adopted by Dresser (' Birds of Europe/ v. 

 p. 499), Sharpe (Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 218), and Gurney 

 (Ibis, 1877, pp. 329-333) for the larger Spotted Eagle, and 

 I believe correctly, Pallas identifies the species with the 

 Morphno congener of Aldrovandi. 



Dr. Sharpe, in the British Museum Catalogue, has adopted 

 A. maculata as the name for the Spotted Eagles generally, 

 and has distinguished the large Spotted Eagle (called A. 

 clanga) and the small Indian [A. hastata) as subspecies. I 

 believe these three Eagles must be regarded as perfectly 

 distinct species, and that the name A. maculata belongs to 

 the large form. I am not quite sure about the name of 

 the smaller European Eagle called A. pomarina by Mr. Dresser 

 and A. rufo-nuchalis by Messrs. Brooks and Gurney, but the 

 subject has been fully discussed by the latter (Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 330). 



3. The Generic Name of Bonelli's Eagle. 

 Dr. Sharpe (Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 249) and Mr. Gurney 

 (Ibis, 1877, p. 419) quote Bonelli's Eagle, Aquila fasciata, 

 as the type of Hodgson's genus Nisaetus. Jerdon had 

 previously in 1862 described the species as Nisaetus bonellii, 

 in the ' Birds of India,' vol. i. p. 67, and at the same 

 time had pointed out that in Hodgson's original description 

 of the genus (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, v. p. 238, 1836) a 

 species of Limna'etus was included, as well as Bonelli's Eagle. 

 Hodgson's genus, in fact, as originally proposed, contained 



