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Mr. Davis, " was shot in the month of January of the pre- 

 sent year, 1845, on the estate of Lord Shannon, and was 

 at the time in a fallow field devouring a rahhit. Another 

 bird similarly marked, but reported to have been of a lighter 

 shade of brown, was shot at the same place within a few 

 days, but was unfortunately not preserved ; both had been 

 noticed during the two previous months sweeping over the 

 low grounds in the neighbourhood, which is near Youghal, 

 and between Castle Martyr and Clay Castle." 



In the 'Zoologist' for 1861 (pp. 7311 and 7817), Mr. 

 Edward Hearle Rodd records the occurrence of two Spotted 

 Eagles, both immature males, in Cornwall. The first 

 was shot in Hawk's Wood, at Trebartha, near Cheesewring, 

 on the 4th of December, 1860. The second was killed at 

 St. Mawgan, near St. Columb, at the end of October or 

 beginning of November, 1861. 



This Eagle, very similar in appearance to the Golden 

 Eagle, but almost one-third smaller in size, is a well-known 

 inhabitant of many parts of Europe, and is said to have 

 been formerly used in Falconry. Professor Nilsson has 

 recorded one killed in Lapland, and a second in Scania, 

 while Faber mentions its occurrence in Sleswick. In the 

 western portion of North Germany it is seldom met with, 

 though it has been recorded by Zander as breeding in Meck- 

 lenburg, Further to the eastward it becomes abundant, and 

 of its habits in Pomerania, where it is especially so, Dr. 

 Kriiper and the late Forester Hintz have given many details. 

 It has been killed in Belgium and Luxemburg, and, according 

 to MM. Jaubert and Barthelemy-Lapommeraye, is a bird of 

 regular passage in the south-east of France, breeding in 

 some of the wooded parts of the Hautes-Alpes. In Spain 

 it is of rare occurrence, and, according to Professor Barboza 

 du Bocage, has been only once killed in Portugal. It pro- 

 bably breeds in Algeria, but, in Mr. Salvin's opinion, is not 

 numerous there. In Lower Egypt it has been observed by 

 many ornithologists to be very common in winter, and Dr. 

 von Heuglin states that it extends along the valley of the 

 Nile to Kordofan, Sennaar, and even to Abyssinia. 



