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3000 feet, from the 8th of March onwards. Montagu's 

 Harrier (C. cineraceus) is in every Museum, but I did not 

 meet with it alive. 



105. BuTEo VULGARIS, Leach. 



The Common Buzzard appears to be resident everywhere 

 up to an elevation of about 4000 feet. 



At St. Jean-de-Luz I saw a bird come across from Spain, 

 alighting as if wearied, which I believe to have been a 

 Rough-legged Buzzard [Buteo lagopus) ; but although I 

 followed it up for some time, it would not allow me to get 

 within shot. 



106. Aquila pennata (Gmel.). 



I saw the Booted Eagle and heard its familiar scream 

 several times in the woods on the Spanish side near Ronces- 

 valles in February, and again in April ; and it nests in the 

 forests on both sides of the Pyrenees. Its breeding-range is 

 now well known to extend as far north as Brittany ; but it 

 will be a surprise to many, as it was to me, to learn that 

 young birds taken from the nest in Normandy are in the 

 Museum at Elbceuf. 



107. Aquila clanga. Pall. 



The Spotted Eagle is tolerably common throughout the 

 wooded mountains j in Navarre I had several opportunities 

 of observing it, but as I did not carry a gun in Spain, I 

 could not obtain specimens. 



108. Aquila adalberti, L. Brehm. 



The young of the Spanish Imperial Eagle occasionally 

 crosses the Pyrenees into France. I have examined one of 

 these, shot by Philippe himself near Bagneres-de-Bigorre, 

 now in the collection of the Rev. W. Lawson, of Lynton ; 

 and there is another in the Museum at Nimes obtained by 

 Crespon. 



109. Aquila chrysaetus (Linn.). 



The Golden Eagle is very rare on the French side (there 

 is, in fact, next to no game for it to subsist upon) ; and in the 

 Eastern Pyrenees, where the inhabitants are far more enter- 



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