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that a few examples of the Indian Little Spotted Eagle 
(A. hastata) show a tendency to have large buff areas of 
plumage. I therefore consider that there are only three 
species of Spotted. Eagles with round nostrils, viz.: 1 . Aquila 
maculata, 2. Aquila pomarina, 3. Aquila hastata. It follows, 
therefore, that Aquila fulvescens must be sunk as a species 
and must stand as Aquila maculata, aberr. fulvescens ” 
Mr. Rothschild exhibited a series of birds from the island 
of S. Thome, in the Bight of Benin, and made remarks on 
some of the species which were peculiar to the island. 
He also called the attention of the meeting to some re¬ 
markable specimens of Phalacrocorax chalconotus , illustrating 
the breeding-plumage of the species, with the tufts of white 
filamentous plumes above the eyes. The young birds had 
formerly been described as Phalacrocorax glaucus , but 
specimens in intermediate stages of plumage in the Tring 
Museum showed that P. glaucus and P. chalconotus were 
identical. 
Mr. Rothschild exhibited specimens of the Balkan Shore- 
Lark ( Otocorys balcanica). 
He also exhibited a specimen of a young bird of Urubi- 
tinga urubitinga, which had been captured by Mr. Andre at a 
distance of 200 yards inside the great cave of the Steatornis, 
at Caripe in Venezuela. 
Mr. Ernst Hartert described a new Spine-tailed Swift 
as follows :— 
Chcetura thomensis, sp. n. 
This remarkable new species of Chcetura is smaller than 
all the other African species, and the wings, though fully as 
long as those of Chcetura sabinei, are much narrower, softer, 
and weaker. It is doubtless the bird mentioned by Mr. 
Newton, of Lisbon, as Ch. cassini, but no specimen appears 
to have been procured by him. Ch. cassini is much larger, 
and has a much shorter and stiffer tail than Ch. thomensis , 
