Ornithology of Cyprus. 11 



735. Aquila heliaca Savigny. 



The Imperial Eagle is a not very rare resident. A fresh 

 unblown egg was brought to Lord Lilford at Trikorao in 

 April, 1875, which, he was informed, had been taken in the 

 neighbourhood of that place a few days previously; this 

 he was completely satisfied had been produced by an Eagle 

 of this species. Guillemard, on his first visit, found the 

 head of an Imperial Eagle, identified by Mr. J. H. Gurney, 

 sciu'., hung on a cottage door, and thought he observed 

 it on Troodos in early June of 1887 ; Miss Bate also 

 considered she had identified it in the same locality. 

 Dr. P. L Sclater mentions in a footnote to Lord Lilford's 

 article, that an Eagle from Cyprus was then (1899) living in 

 the London Zoological Gardens, presented by Col. E. L. Fraser 

 on June the 17th, 1887. It was labelled A. nceoioides (?), 

 but was, according to Dr. Sclater, probably A. heliaca. 



On August the 14th, 1907, I came unexpectedly on a pair 

 sitting on an old pine tree not five yards from me, as I 

 turned round a rock almost on the top of Mount Olympus. 

 On the 28th of July, 1908, I found perhaps the same pair 

 nearly in the same place and watched them for some time ; 

 on November the 17th, 1908, I picked up a freshly shot 

 male on the shore of Acheritou reservoir ; on the 29th of 

 March, 1909, Horsbrugh, who had seen a number of Eagles 

 near the reservoirs, obtained a fine female at Kouklia. 



Horsbrugh and I had several times noticed this Eagle when 

 working the Kyrenia mountains towards the end of March 

 (1909), but could not locate its nest. Through the kindness 

 of Mr. Bovill, the principal Forest Officer, the locality was 

 watched, and on April the 29th, the structure, a large clumsy 

 mass of branches placed at the top of a tall pine tree, 

 was discovered by the forest guard, and the two, very 

 slightly incubated, eggs were brought to us; they measured 

 2"86 x 2T6 and 2'85 x 2"28 inches respectively. 



739. Haliaetus albicilla (Linn.). 



Major Jones, late of the 50th Foot, writing in the f Field ' 

 of May 11th, 1889, states that the White-tailed Eagle is 



