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the winter of 1858, in the great marsh between Santa Quaranta 

 and Belvino in Epirns, abont twenty miles north of Corfu. 

 The Corfu bird-preserver assured me that this sj)eeies breeds in 

 the precipices of San Salvador in the island of Corfu. I have 

 seen an individual of these species seize and carry off a Golden- 

 Eye [Anas clangula), which had been wounded a few minutes 

 previously by one of our party, whilst woodcock shooting near 

 Butrinto. This is a much less wary species than the preceding, 

 and will often allow one to approach within gunshot when 

 perched on a tree looking out for wild-fowl, which seem to form 

 its principal food in Albania. 



7. Spottkd Eagle. [Aquila navia.) 



Very abundant, in January and February 1857, in all the 

 marshes of Epirus ; less so, though still common, in the follow- 

 ing winter. As soon as a gun is fired in any of the marshes 

 about Butrinto, one or more of these birds is sure to appear, and 

 keep flying about from tree to tree, apparently on the watch for 

 prey, though I never saw them pursue any bird, and imagine 

 that they feed chiefly upon rats, frogs, and such " small deer." 

 I have seen this species several times in Corfu. I never ob- 

 served it in summer, and, as far as I could find out, it is a 

 regular winter visitor in Epirus, appearing in that country 

 about the latter end of September, and remaining until the 

 middle or end of March. I never saw one of this species except 

 in or near marshes, and it is certainly the most tree-loving Eagle 

 with which I am acquainted. It is not, according to my own 

 observation, so common in Acarnania as in Epirus. 



8. BoNELLi's Eagle. [Aquila honellii.) 



I was shown a stuffed s])ecinien of this Eagle at Corfu which 

 was said to have been shot on the mainland, and I have several 

 times observed bii'ds in that country which 1 novi believe to 

 have been of this species. A pair haunted the precipitous face 

 of a hill near Butrinto in the winter months of 1857 and 1858, 

 and were the terror of any vultures or other birds of prey which 

 jiassed near their abode. They were generally to be observed 

 in fine weather, soaring at a great height in the air, and swooping 

 fiercely at any bird larger than a pigeon which ventured to 



