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Bulletin of the British 
XXXIII.— Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club. 
Nos. LXX.-LXXII. 
No. LXX. (March 31st, 1900). 
The sixty-ninth Meeting of the Club was held at the 
Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday, the 
21st of March, 1900. Chairman : P. L. Sclater, F.R.S. 
Thirty Members and five guests were present. 
The Hon. Walter Rothschild exhibited an adult speci¬ 
men of the so-called Aquila fulvescens , shot by Herr Fiihrer 
in Albania, together with a young bird obtained about the 
same time and place. For comparison he placed on the table 
adult and young birds of the Great Spotted Eagle ( Aquila 
maculata) and the Small Spotted Eagle ( Aquila pomurina), 
and made the following remarks :— ff The name Aquila ful¬ 
vescens has hitherto been bestowed on Indian specimens, and 
this form has, up to the present time, been admitted by British 
ornithologists to be a well-marked and distinct species. The 
late Eugen von Ilomeyer described a European example 
under the name of Aquila boecki , and since then, including 
the one exhibited to-night, three more examples have been 
recorded from Europe. Mr. Hartert, Dr. Otto Reiser (in 
litt.) 3 and several other naturalists have more than once drawn 
attention to the exactly similar proportions and external 
characters existing between Aquila maculata and Aquila 
fulvescens , the only difference being in the colour of the 
plumage, and they have suggested that A. boecki might be a 
more or less constant aberration of Aquila maculata. 
“ I think that the young bird exhibited will convince most 
ornithologists, as it has myself, that Aquila fulvescens is 
really a parallel aberration 5 to the light forms of the Common 
Buzzard, Buteo buteo , ana that it is not a good species. 
This young bird has the upper and under tail-coverts, as 
well as the feathers of the leg and thigh, of the same pale 
buff colour, and in these markings it resembles the adult 
Aquila fulvescens; while the rest of its plumage is identical 
with typical young of Aquila maculata. A further proof is 
