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din's expedition, and deposited in the Paris Museum. 

 One of these was figured and characterized by M. Cu- 

 vier, in the original edition of his Regne Animal, under 

 the name of Aigle a Queue Etagee corresponding with 

 the English denomination which we have adopted. It 

 seems to have been ticketed in the gallery of the 

 Museum with the name of Aquila fuscosa, under which 

 appellation it is mentioned in the Supplement to the 

 Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, in the English 

 translation of M. Cuvier's work, where it is likewise 

 figured, and in the new edition published by M. Cuvier 

 himself. But this unmeaning term has probably crept 

 in by mistake for fucosa, into which M. Temminck has 

 converted it, which Mr. Vigors has since adopted, and 

 which we have retained as being at least capable of 

 some explanation, although its applicability to the 

 present species is far from obvious. M. Temminck's 

 figure, given in an early number of the Planches 

 Coloriees, appears also to have been taken from one 

 of the specimens in the French Museum, the only 

 other individual to which he refers, that contained in 

 the Museum of the Netherlands, being described by 

 him as difiering very remarkably in its colours. 



In the Society's specimen, probably an adult bird, 

 the general colour is a deep dusky brown or dull black, 

 with a rufous tinge on the head and back of the neck, 

 which is also present, but in a less degree, on the 

 breast. The wing-coverts are partially margined with 

 white, but the anterior ones are bordered with light 

 brown. The beak is black at the tip and horn-coloured 

 at the base, the latter hue extending over the cere to 

 the naked part of the face, which passes as far back- 

 wards as the eyes, and has a very slight tinge of red. 

 The iris is light brown ; the toes and short visible 

 portion of the legs above are yellowish horn-coloured ; 

 and the talons black. The form, with the exception of 



