Spotted Eagle. 



Buteo holospilus, Vigors, Proc. of the Comm. Sci. and Corr. Zool. Soc. 1830-1, p. 96. 

 Hccmatornis holospilus. Ibid. p. 171. 



Spilornis holospilus, G. R. Gray, Catalogue, Brit. Mus. p. 10, 1844. 



The genus Hcematornis contains at least three species, the characters of which were first 

 pointed by Mr. Vigors in the Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of 

 the Zoological Society of London for 1830-1, p. 170; and more recently by Mr. Blyth in the 

 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1845, p. 179. 



The specimen from which the figure was taken was presented by Hamilton Lindsay, Esq., 

 Corr. Memb. ; the species also occurred in the Cumingian collection. 



Habitat, the Philippine Islands. 



The crown of the head, dark brown ; the feathers of the neck, long and forming a ruff ; 

 the plumage of the back is brown ; the under surface is reddish-brown, each feather having four 

 or more large round white spots, these spots become smaller on the thighs ; tail, dark brown, with 

 broad bands of grey brown. The bill is black, the cere and legs are yellow. 



Total length, twenty-four inches. 



