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Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notes on 
that he considered it “ not improbable " that the figure 
of Aquila fulvescens, above referred to, represented the same 
North-west Indian Eagle which had then been recently (but, 
as was subsequently shown, erroneously) identified with A. 
rapax. Such I believe to be the fact; and I now agree with 
the view which was enunciated in 1873 by Mr. W. E. Brooks*, 
that this Eagle, which Dr. Jerdon correctly identified with 
Dr. Gray's Aquila fulvescens, is specifically distinct both from 
A. rapax and from A. vindhiana, and that A. fulvescens must 
be recognized as a good and valid species. 
Of two specimens, one adult and the other immature, which 
Mr. Brooks sent to England in 1869, I saw, if my memory 
serves me correctly, the adult only ; this specimen, which 
Mr. Brooks informs me is the only one in adult plumage 
which has been obtained since the rediscovery of the species, 
was sent back to India, where it now remains in the posses¬ 
sion of Mr. Hume. I have therefore had no opportunity of 
reexamining it; but, through the obliging intervention of Mr. 
Brooks, I have recently had the loan of an immature male 
and female belonging to Mr. John Hancock; and I found 
them so very different from the immature stage of any other 
Eagle with which I am acquainted, that I could not hesitate 
to acknowledge them as quite distinct both from A. rapax 
and from A. vindhiana. Coupling this fact with that of the 
agreement of these specimens with the bird figured by Gray 
under the name of Aquila fulvescens , I cannot doubt that this 
name is rightly applicable to the present species, and is not, 
as has been supposed, a synonym of A. vindhiana. 
Previously to the identification of this species with A. ful¬ 
vescens, some interesting descriptive notes respecting it were 
contributed by Mr. Brooks to f The Ibis' for 1868, p. 351, and 
for 1870, p. 290, and by Mr. Anderson to the P.Z.S. for 1871, 
p. 687. These notes may, I think, be appropriately supple¬ 
mented by the following description of the adult specimen 
already referred to, for which I am indebted to the kind¬ 
ness of Mr. Brooks :— 
* Vide Proc. Asiatic Society of Bengal for November 1873, p. 173, 
and Ibis, 1874, p. 84. 
