


500 Mr. W. E. Brooks’s Ornithological 
Antuus cERVINUS (Ibis, 1874, p. 460). 
I have seen this bird from the Andamans. It is quite di- 
stinct from Anthus rosaceus, Hodgs. I have also seen it from 
Yarkand. Anthus pratensis and Budytes rayi were also col- 
lected in the same country by Dr. Stoliczka. 
Sturnvus vutearis (Ibis, 1875, p. 238). 
Mr. Dresser speaks of Hume’s Starling as “ the Indian form 
of our European Starling.” Sturnus vulgaris is the common 
Starling of India, and must not be confounded with the little 
Cashmere Starling which is figured in ‘ Lahore to Yarkand,’ 
the name of which I propose changing to Sturnus humit, the 
term nitens being preoccupied. 
This small Starling is, as a rule, nearly or quite spotless ; 
_ but in winter it is spotted; at least those I shot im the plains 
of India were fairly spotted. The spots, however, are very 
different from the large ones of S. vulgaris. The egg also is 
much smaller. The common Starling was not seen by me in 
Cashmere, where I found Sturnus humi breeding plentifully. 
The European bird breeds, I believe, in Afghanistan. 
“ AQuILA CLANGA”’ (Ibis, 1875, p. 294). 
Is the Greater Spotted Eagle here referred to, or A. nipa- 
lensis? 'The latter has been called A. clanga by some conti- 
nental ornithologists. : | 
“ Aquita N&vIA” (Ibis, 1875, p. 294). 
Is it the Lesser Spotted Eagle that is here referred to? If 
so, it is certainly not entitled to the name, as Mr. Dresser has 
shown (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xii. p. 378). 
“ Aquita N&viA (Gm.),” Capt. Clarke Kennedy “On the 
Avifauna of the Desert of Sinai and of the Holy Land,” Ibis, 
1874, p. 112. 
Here again we cannot possibly tell what species is referred 
to; for Aquila nevia of one ornithologist is not the Aguila 
nevia of another. In referring to these worse than nameless 
birds, it would be convenient always to add “ Greater” or 
“* Lesser Spotted Eagle,” as the case may be, until the Latin 
name for each be agreed upon by ornithologists. 


