Litho. W. Grève, Berlin.
SPOTTED EAGLE
Aquila naevia (J. F.'Gmelin)-
Drawn from life at Lilford. Plumage of fourth, year.
SPOTTED EAGLE.
AQUILA NÆVIA (/. F. Gmelin).,
Falco nævius, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 258 (1788).
Aquila nævia, Heioitson, i. p. 18; Yarr. ed. 4, i. p. 20.
Falco clanga, Naum. xiii. p. 40.
Aquila clanga, Dresser, v. p. 499.
Aigle tacheté, Aigle criard, French ; Schrei-Adler, German ;
Aguïla pint a da, Valencia.
Few European birds have caused more discussion and
confusion amongst ornithologists than the Spotted
Eagle and its close congeners ; I have no wish to add
any elements for argument on this well-worn subject,
and will therefore only state that, in my own opinion,
we have in Europe only one true species of the Eagle
that is called “ Spotted,” although I am perfectly re.ady
to admit that this species may be fairly divided into
two separate forms or races.
My business here is to give representations of Spotted
Eagles obtained in this country, and with this object I
have chosen two specimens of (probably) about the same
-age, obtained in October and November 1891, in Essex
and Suffolk respectively, and differing widely in plumage.
Mr. H. Saunders, in his most useful ‘Manual,’