434 ME WILSON ON THE SUPPOSED IDENTITY OF 
XXXII. — Ee^narks on the different Opmiom 
entertained regarding the specific Distinction^ 
or Identity, of the Bing4ailed and Golden 
Eagles. 
By James Wilson, Esq. M. W. S. Sec. 
{Read February 1823.) 
TDhE question concerning the identity of the Ring-tailecl 
and Golden Eagles has been again entered into, and the 
probability of such identity actually existing was maintained 
and illustrated by Mr Selby, a very skilful and zealous 
ornithologist, in an interesting and ingenious paper lately 
read to the Society, As such opinion is in opposition to 
the one which I have advocated at some length, in a paper 
on certain species of the genus Falco, some years since 
honoured by the Society with a place in the second volume 
of its Memoirs, and as I still adhere to the sentiments which 
I then expressed, I think it due, as well to the mainte- 
nance of my own opinion, as to the free spirit of discussion 
which has always pervaded our inquiries, to state without 
reserve what has occurred to me on Mr Selby^s paper. 
