BLACK-WINGED KITE. 131 
Sumatra. Lord Walden has a specimen from Burmah, and Mr. Dresser 
tells me that it occurs in Eastern Siberia. 
The Norwich Museum has specimens from Cairo, Beyrout, Smyrna 
and Sarepta, on the Volga, and Mr. Dresser has specimens from Albania, 
which is the most western locality I have yet seen it from, and there 
the smaller race also occurs. 
It has not yet been satisfactorily made out whether it is the larger 
or the smaller race which has occurred in the British Islands. 
The smaller race, of which the head-quarters are Eastern Germany, 
appears to be Aquila maculata of Gmelin, and I now think should 
stand under that name. 
This race when adult does not differ perceptibly from the Indian A. 
hastata, but it differs much from it when immature. 
In its!! nestling stage of dress it is spotted with exactly the same 
character of spots as the young bird of the larger race, the spots on 
the young A. hastata, being much smaller and much more clustered 
along the whole length of the wing-bones, especially along the surface 
of the carpal bone. 
In its second year's dress A. hastata is much striated below, a plu- 
mage which I have never seen in A. maculata. 
I therefore believe A. maculata to be specifically distinct from A. 
hastata, but even were it otherwise, the name "maculata"''' would 
have priority, being one of Gmelin's, and the other being Lesson's." 
The additions to the Falconidcs in this edition are, the Northern 
variety of Sociable Vulture, V. nubicus, instead of V. auricularis ; three 
Imperial Eagles. instead of one, Aquila Culleni, Striated Eagle, and the 
pretty little miniature Peregrine Falco harbarus. 
N. Gabar, Buteo desertorum, and Aquila ncevioides are omitted by 
Gray in his hand-book, while F. tanypterus is separated from F. 
lanarius, and admitted as a distinct species, and F. badius is not a 
European species. 
