444 ADDENDA TO THE BIRDS OF THE 
a different bird.” This may mislead. Noone doubts that 
the two species are distinct; the doubt is as to which 
of the two species should bear Gmelin’s title ; Mr. Sharpe 
assigned it to the Bifasciated Eagle, and called our 27—4A. 
heliaca. I,on the other hand, considered that it was the 
Imperial Eagle that should take Gmelin’s name and fell back 
upon Hodgson’s name for the Bifasciated Eagle. 
I rather think that it has since been shown that neither 
Mr. Sharpe nor myself were correct,and that neither bird 
should bear the names assigned by either. On this I offer no 
opinion. All I wish to make clear is that, though there may 
have been difficulties about the names, no one of late years 
has, I believe, doubted as to the two species being distinct. 
As I said the Catalogue is nota record of much that is “ rich or 
rare,’ but its value consists in giving a large number of 
accurate localities for a considerable number of species, and 
neglecting those assigned to the 479 specimens taken over from 
the old Museum, the whole of the rest of the localities are, I 
believe, absolutely reliable and certain. 
Tf all our other local Museums would prepare and publish 
equally careful Catalogues, boldly recording “unknown” against 
all those specimens of whose origin nothing certain is 
known, students would certainly be in a better position than 
now to work out those generalizations which are the primary 
objects of all sciences. 
A.2O, 44. 
Addenda to the Birds of the Lucknow Civil Division. 
(Ante pp. 1—88.) 
By Gero. REID. 
SINCE my paper was published in Stray FEATHERS, I have 
been able to add a few more species to the Birds of the 
Lucknow Civil Division, and these I propose now to enu- 
merate. But before doing so I wish to offer a few remarks 
in continuation and correction of my original paper. 
In my former paper I noticed that the drought of 1877 
had ruined the division as a winter resort of wildfowl. 
The same disastrous result still obtains. From being one 
of the finest, it is now one of the worst districts for wildfowl 
shooting in the province. Few people now in Lucknow 
remember the fine shooting to be had almost at the City 
Gates, the market teeming with wildfowl from which not a 
