304 NOTES ON THE SPOTTED EAGLE, AQUILA NiEVIA. 



brown ; no bars on the flanks ; tail bluish, 

 shaded with buff and crossed with 11 bars of 



black vespertinus, Juv. 



d". — Head dark bluish, with black shaft streaks ; 

 forehead fulvous ; under surface of body buff, 

 broadly streaked with black on the chest and 

 barred on the flanks with the same colour ; 

 tail bluish, with about eight narrow blackish 



bars amurensis, Juv. 



I may remark that an immature specimen from Nepal has 

 more than eight bars on the tail, in fact it has ten,, but these 

 are much narrower than the grey interspaces, even if the other 

 characters did not hold good and distinguish it at once from 

 the young of C. vespertina. 



ilotcs m "%\t §|Jotteb fejle," gquito naftia. 



By W. Edwin Brooks. 

 The synonyms of which are — 



A quila n^via, . . . Brisson. 



Falco N.EVIUS, ... Gmelin. 



Falco maculaTUS, ... Gmelin. 



Falco maculatus, ... Latham. 



Aquila clanga, ... Klein. 



Aquila clanga, ... Pallas. 



Aquila vittata, ... IIodgso?i. 



Aquila n^evia, ... Schioenckfeld. 

 Morphno congener, ... Aldrovandi. 



Aquila minor, ... Bvffon. 



Some difference of opinion appears still to exist as to what 

 bird was the Spotted Eagle {Aquila ncevia) of the old authors. 



I have repeatedly endeavoured to shew that the small Spotted 

 Eao-le of Northern Germajiy, and which I identified with the 

 Indian Aquila hastata, Lesson, is not Aquila ncevia; but in Stray 

 Feathers, Vol. III., p. 25, under the head of Aquila cla?iga, Pall., 

 Mr. Hume adds a foot-note to this effect. " By clanga I mean 

 the bird which we have most of us heretofore called ncevia, 

 Brisson. I agree with Mr. Brooks that the true ncevia is either 

 identical with, or very closely allied to, hastata.'" Mr. Hume 

 has quite forgotten what I have written, for I have endeavoured 

 to shew the very opposite. He has also forgotten the extract 

 from Mr. Gurney's letter quoted in Stray Feathers, Vol. II., 

 p. 332, as follows : — " Writing to me recently, Mr. J. H. Gurney 

 says : ' There are certainly two Spotted Eagles of different 



