8 GYPAETUS BARBATUS. — AQUILA CHRYSAETUS. 



[§ 23. One.—Kei M'satka, Eastern Atlas, 8 March, 1859. 

 "P. L. S." From Dr. P. L. Sclater. 



One of the few egg-treasures obtained by Mr. Sclater during his short tiip 

 to Algeria and Tunis in 1859. It was taken in his presence.] 



GYPAETUS BARBATUS (Linnaeus). 

 BEARDED VULTURE. 



§ 24. Tim. — " Pyrenees, 1857." From M. Parzudaki's Col- 

 lection, 1858. 



Without inscription till I wrote on them, from a memorandum of 

 what M. Parzudaki had told me concerning the eggs I received of 

 liim. He particidarly said these were not from Algeria, but from 

 the Pyrenees. 



AQUILA CHRYSAETUS (Linnaeus). 



GOLDEN EAGLE. 



The Mountain Eagle, as in Scotland it is generally called, still breeds 

 in some of the more remote districts of our island, as well as of 

 Ireland. Last year (1852) I knew of five nests that had eggs in them 

 in different parts of Scotland ; and undoubtedly there were at least as 

 many more of which I did not hear particulars. In the Orkneys 

 there was for a numljcr of years an eyrie in the interior of one of the 

 islands. In Shetland I have not been able to obtain any proof of the 

 existence of this bird, and it is certainly unknown in the Fsero Islands 

 and in Iceland. In Norway it is common, and, with the Sea Eagle, 

 is so numerous that, from a statistical account of the premiums paid 

 each year by the government for the destruction of beasts and birds of 

 prey, as published in the 'Athenaeum,' No. 1367 [for Feb. 7, 1852 

 (p. 179)], it appears that, in the five years ending December 1850, 

 there were paid for altogether no less than 10,715 Eagles ! The 

 Sutherlandshire Expedition of Naturalists mention [Edinb. New Phil. 

 Journ. XX. pp. 158, 159] the number of Eagles that had been paid for 

 between March 1831 and March 1834 to have been 171, besides 53 

 nestlings or eggs ! Shortly after that time the Association for the 

 destruction of vermin was dissolved, and the breed was kept down 



