Notes upon some of the Indian and European Eagles. 463 



The whole head and neck all round is ding-y whity brown^ the 

 feathers being- brown at their bases and whitish at their tips ; 

 the whole of the body including- the scapulars^ upper and lower 

 tail coverts, and tibial plumes, and most of the median and 

 lesser wing" coverts, a dirty white ; only the lesser coverts imme- 

 diately along- the edg-e of the wing, a dirty brown ; the quills 

 and most of the greater coverts and the rectrices, a dirty blackish 

 brown, palest on the tertiaries. Davison says : 



" I saw an enormous flock of these birds on the mud banks 

 of a larg-e creek : they were not particularly shy, and I advanced 

 under cover of some bushes to within 20 yards of a number, 

 and as far as I could make out, the whole flock consisted of 

 birds colored exactly like the two specimens shot, which seem 

 immature." 



A. O. H. 



Sot^s xx^m same 0f tfjc %\xlm mxl (^m^m\x Citgl^s. 



By W. Mwin Brooks, Esq., C. E. 

 No. III. 



Having received an African example of Aquila navioides, Cuv.^ 

 I find it is a species quite new to me ; and that the Indian bird 

 of which I sent a few home for identification was wrong-ly iden- 

 tified by the Eng-lish ornitholog-ists with Acpdla nmvioides. Our 

 Indian bird is Acpdla ftdvescens, Gray, and accords most per- 

 fectly with the plate in Gray and Hardwick^s illustrations of 

 Indian Zoology. Mr. Gurney was the first to point out to me 

 that our common Indian Wokhab, Aquila vindMana, Franklinj, 

 was not entitled to the name oi fidvescens. 



Aquila navioides, like our A. vindhiana, has a long" vertical 

 nostril, also a well barred grey tail like the Indian species. The 

 coloration, however, is much finer, and no wokhab can approach 

 the African species in this respect. The large amount of parti- 

 colored plumage is striking ; and if a fairly spotted Aq. ncBvia 

 had its spots turned yellowish, and the whole body, save 

 scapulars, wings, and tail of a deep yellow buff, the bill made 

 much stouter, and the round nostril made long and vertical, 

 also the tail made hoary and well barred, then we should have 

 the characteristic plumage of Aquila navioides, the tawny eagle. 

 Its ^' tawny"' color is not the rufous buff of A. fidvescens, but 

 a deep yellow buff, most peculiar and unmatched by the color of 

 any other eagle. 



