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sijecimeus from Preneh cavern-deposits are figured by 

 Milne-Edwards in his ' Oiseaux Possiles de la France,' 

 pi. clxxxviii. figs. 9-14. Piircliased, 1864. 



Aquila depredator, Milne-Edwards'. 



Apparently allied to the existing A. honeUi, with which if agrees apjirosi- 

 mately in the size of the tarso-iuetatarsiis. 

 Huh. Europe (France). 

 Occurs in the Lower Miocene (Upper Oligocene) of AUier. 



Aquila prisca, Milne-Edwards -, 



Distinguished from the preceding by the stouter tarso-metatarsua. 



Hab. Europe (France). 



From the Lower Miocene of Allier. 



Aquila minuta, Milne-Edwards 3. 

 A small and very imperfectly known species. 

 Hab. Europe (France). 

 Middle Miocene of Sansan (Gers). 



Genus HARPAGORNIS, Haast*. 



Apparently allied ioAciulla, from which it is distinguished by the 

 ulua being relatively shorter and the tarso-metatarsus stouter. It 

 is regarded by its founder as more nearly related to Circus, and by 

 Owen to Falco and Buteo. 



Harpagornis moorei, IIaast\ 

 Syn. (?) Harpagornis assimilis, Ilaast '\ 



The type species. Females about one and a half times the bulk 

 di Aquila clirysaiitus. It is probable, as Ilaast suggests, that the 

 smaller bones described as H. assimilis are referable to the male of 

 this species. 



Uah. New Zealand. 



' Oiseaux Fossiles de la France, vol. ii. p. 458 (1869-71). 



^ Ann. Sci. Nat, Zool. scr. 4, vol. xx. p. 157 (1863). 



^ Oiseaux Fossiles, t. c. p. 463. 



' Trans. New Zealand Inst. vol. iv. p. 192 (1871). 



^ Loe. cit. 



'• Ibid. vol. vi. p, 04 (1874). 



