Spotted Eagle. 
Buteo holospilus , Vigors, Proc. of the Comm. Sci. and Corr. Zool. Soc. 1830-1, p. 96. 
Hcematornis holospilus , Ibid. p. 171. 
Spilornis holospilus , G. R. Gray, Catalogue, Brit. Mus. p. 10, 1844. 
The genus Hcematornis contains at least three species, the characters ot which were first 
pointed by Mr. Vigors in the Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence of 
the Zoological Society of London for 1830-1, p. 170; and more recently by Mr. Blyth in the 
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal for 1845, p. 179. 
The specimen from which the figure was taken was presented by Hamilton Lindsay, Esq., 
Corr. Memb.; the species also occurred in the Cumingian collection. 
Habitat, the Philippine Islands. 
The crown of the head, dark brown; the feathers of the neck, long and forming a ruff; 
the plumage of the back is brown; the under surface is reddish-brown, each feather having four 
or more large round white spots, these spots become smaller on the thighs; tail, dark brown, with 
broad bands of grey brown. The bill is black, the cere and legs are yellow. 
Total length, twenty-four inches. 
