222 Mr. J. H. Gumey^s Notes on 
Brooks and Anderson in India as well as by Mr. Dresser 
in this country. 
When I last referred in print to this subject {vide Ibis, 
1873, p. 422) I was of opinion that the Steppe-Eagle of 
Eastern Asia and India should probably be considered spe¬ 
cifically distinct from that of Eastern Europe, the latter being, 
on the average of specimens, decidedly smaller, for instances 
of which I would refer to Mr. Dresser’s paper in the P. Z. S. 
for 1873, at p. 516; but I am now disposed to acquiesce in 
the view which has been taken by all the four ornithologists 
above referred to, that this disparity of size is not sufficient 
to constitute a specific distinction; and assuming this view 
to be correct, I agree with Mr. Dresser in considering “ ni- 
palensis 33 of Hodgson to be the correct specific name to apply 
to the Steppe-Eagle both of Asia and of Europe. 
I have already mentioned my dissent from Mr. Sharpens 
application of Gindin* s name of “ mogilnik 33 to this species; 
but I may here observe that, previously to Mr. Sharpe having 
so applied it, a similar appropriation of it to this Eagle was 
made by M. Alleon in the f Revue et Magasin de Zoologie* 
for 1866, accompanied by a figure (pL 20) of a specimen 
obtained on the Bosphorus, which, contrary to the opinion of 
M. Alleon, I believe to be fully adult. In subsequent papers, 
written jointly with M. Vian*, M. Alleon ceases to identify 
the Steppe-Eagle with Aquila mogilnik , Gmel., and treats it 
as identical with A. clang a, Pallas. I think it is by no means 
impossible that Pallas did not distinguish between the usually 
smaller occidental form of the present species and the larger 
Spotted Eagle; but the description of his Aquila clanga 
applies better to the latter, with which Mr. Sharpe identifies 
it, and, on the whole, I believe, correctly. 
MM. Alleon and Yian also express the opinion that the 
Steppe-Eagle of Eastern Europe is not specifically distinct 
from Aquila nmvioides of Cuvier, or, as it may be more cor¬ 
rectly termed, A. rapax ; this is an opinion which I at one 
* Vide 1 Revue et Magasin de Zoologie ’ for 1869, pp. 258,311, 313, for 
1870, pp. 81, 82, 130, and for 1873, pp. 235, 239. 
