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those of the highest North ; but it is not met with hi Greenland 

 or Iceland. 



13.— Lesser Spotted Eagle [Kleiner Schreiadler]. 

 FALCO NAEVIUS. Linn.i 



Falco naeviiis. Naumann, i. 217, xiii. 50; ibid. Blasius, NachtriUje, 10. 



Lesser Spotted Eagle. Dresser, v. 401. 



Aigle Criard. Temminck, Manuel, i. 42, iii. 23. 



As has been abeady mentioned under the preceding species, this 

 bird has been met mth t^vice on the island ; the same gunner who, 

 in 1867, shot the Golden Eagle before referred to, also shot, about 

 the year 1838, when still quite a young fellow, the only Spotted 

 Eagle ever killed on the island. The bird was quite young and very 

 strongly spotted, its plumage comparing remarkably with that of a 

 young Gannet {Sula alba). It was stuffed by Eeymers. A bird of 

 this species, which had been washed up by the sea, was afterwards 

 found at the foot of the chff by the elder Aeuckens ; it had however 

 been so much eaten into b}' the thousands of rats which frequent 

 the place that only the upper parts of the bird — which was lymg on 

 its back — and the wings, were left undamaged. This bird too was 

 a strongly-spotted young male. 



The Lesser Spotted Eagle nests in northern and central Germany, 

 Livonia, Poland, and south-eastern Europe as far south as Greece. 



14.— Sea Eagle [Seeadler]. 

 FALCO ALBICILLA, Lmn.2 



Heligolandish :. Oadlear = £o9?c. 

 Falco albicilla. Naumann, i. 224, xiii. 66. 

 Sea Eagle. Dresser, v. 551. 



Aigle ■pyyargue. Temminck, Manuel, i. 49, iii. 26. 



If an east wind sets in at the aj^proach of winter we may with 

 safety reckon upon seeing one or more of these birds circling round 

 in the course of the day ; and should the wind be succeeded by 

 a lasting frost, Sea Eagles become, if not daily, yet by no means 

 unusual occurrences ; if, on the other hand, westerly winds and wet 

 weather prevail during the winter the birds are absent. Isolated 

 examples are also seen occasionally in October and early in the 

 spring. 



' Aquila pomarina, C. L. Brehm. - Haliaetns albicilla (Linn.). 



