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Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notes on 
should it prove to belong to an undescribed species, the 
name of Aquila culleni. Unfortunately the drawings sent 
from Antwerp to Dr. Bree appear to have been inaccurate in 
three important particulars; the description, moreover, did 
not altogether agree with the bird as it was when I saw it 
in September last: the nostril, which in reality is of the form 
usual in A. rap ax, was represented as of a very different cha¬ 
racter; the tarsus, which is feathered down to the toes, was 
drawn as having its lower portion bare; and the broad scutes on 
the lower part of the toes do not extend in reality so far up on 
the middle and on the outer toe as the drawing indicates (vide 
Dr. Bree's engraving of details at p. 93). The tail was reported 
to Dr. Bree as being, in 1874, “ without traces of bands or 
transverse spotsbut such was not the case when I saw it 
two years later. It was also stated at that period to be “ very 
silentbut during the time that I inspected it this was not 
so, as it continually uttered a croaking note, which much 
reminded me of that of a South-African A. rapax which I 
kept for many years in confinement. 
The following memoranda as to the coloration of this Eagle 
were made by me on the spot, and, from the interest attaching 
to this specimen, may be worth inserting here :— <c Iris hazel; 
cere, gape, and feet rather dull yellow; the crown of the head 
and back of the neck are bright rufescent fulvous, but with 
the rufous tint decidedly paler than in adult South-African 
specimens, and more resembling the colour of those parts in 
the South-African bird when immature; the ground-colour 
of the mantle generally is of a similar hue to the head and 
neck; but the interscapular and upper scapular feathers have 
darker shaft-marks, and are also tinged with greyish brown, 
which is darkest along the sides of each feather, forming a 
tolerably distinct border and producing a particoloured fea¬ 
ther, in some cases with a slight fawn tip, and resembling in 
character the corresponding feathers in the adult South-African 
bird, but with the contrast of tints much less strongly marked; 
the lower scapulars are of a dark slaty brown, faintly tipped 
with fawn, and showing, in some lights, a purplish reflection ; 
the wing-coverts, except those of the primaries and secon- 
