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founded with the well-marked African A, ncevioides ; no two birds could be 

 more distinct, the foxy-red plumage of the latter being most striking. 

 As far as general tone of colour goes, the African species more resem- 

 bles Aquila fulvescens, Gray in its immature or buff stage ; but this last 

 is readily distinguished by its very circular nostril, not to mention other 

 well-marked differences. 



Aquila Vindhiana, Franklin. 



Having seen Ruppell's plate of Aquila albicans and read what Mr. 

 Blanford* and Dr. Finschf say of the North East African species, which 

 they term A. rapaoc, Temm., I strongly suspect its identity with our 

 Indian A, Vindhiana. From what I have seen of true Aquila ncevioides 

 vel rapacc, I cannot conceive of this bird ever being " pale cream colou- 

 red" or " blackish brown ;" and a species distinct from A. ncBvioides 

 (and which has been confounded with it) is doubtless found in the Nortliern 

 portion of Africa. Riippell's plate of A, albicans is the most perfect repre- 

 sentation of a pale " Wokhab" that could be desired. A series of North 

 Afi-ican and Punjab birds should be compared. Mr. J. H. Gurney once 

 told me {in litt?) that the identity of the North African Eagle generally 

 termed A. ncevioides with our Indian A. Vindhiana was very probable ; 

 and also that Lord Walden had Abyssinian examples of the latter species. 



Arciiibuteo steophiatus and A. crtptogei^ts Hodgs. 

 Are two entirely distinct species. I have copies of Hodgson's minute 

 drawings of each, with all details of bills and feet. Although botli are of 

 similar size, the latter is a much feebler bird and more of a Buzzard ; it 

 has a very much smaller foot, a more slender tarsus, and a much smaller bill, 

 and while A. stropliiatus has the nostril free, A. cryptogenys has it partially 

 hidden by plumes. The plumage of the two birds is also entirely different. 

 Neither, I should remark, bears the faintest resemblance to Aquila pennata^ 

 which is only two-thirds of the size of Hodgson's two species, so that if a 

 specimen of the last-named in the British Museum, said to have been sent 

 by Hodgson, is labelled ^. stropTiiattos, it could not have been so labelled 

 by Hodgson, who cannot be held responsible for what is probably due to 

 Museum blunders, and who anyhow knew the Booted Eagle too well to 

 apply the name of stropliiatus to it. 



MiLYUs palusteis, And. 

 P. A. S. 1873, pp. 142—147. 



Mr. Anderson authorizes me to withdraw this species. I have procured 

 a considerable series of the common Indian village Kite (B£. a-ffinis, Gould), 



* Zoology and Geology of Abyssinia, p. 295. 



t Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 201. 



