Mr-. R. B. S/iarpe's Catalogue 0/ Accipitres. 217 



Brooks, now forms part of the collection at the Norwich Mu- 

 seum, But that collection also contains another specimen, the 

 locality of which is unfortunately unknown, which has a still 

 greater development of white on the scapulars — in fact, nearly 

 as much as is represented in the figure of the adult bird given 

 im Mr. Gould's ' Birds of Europe/ 



Mr. Dresser's excellent article on this species contains much 

 interesting information respecting it, gathered from various 

 sources ; but it may be desirable to call attention to some 

 valuable notes on this Eagle, as observed in Turkey, to which 

 Mr. Dresser has not referred; these are from the pen of MM. 

 Alleon and Vian, and will be found in the ' Revue et Magasin 

 de Zoologie' for 1869, p. 108, and for 1870, p. 83^". 



Dr. Bree, in the first volume of the second edition of his 

 * History of the Birds of Europe,' at p. 70, also gives some 

 interesting additional particulars respecting the Imperial 

 Eagle, supplied to him by Mr. A. S. Cullen of Kustendji ; and 

 at p. 96 of the same volume he figures, under the name of 

 " Striated Eagle," two specimens sent to him from Kustendji 

 by* Dr. Cullen, which, so far as I can judge from an ex- 

 amination of the skins, are immature examples of the Im- 

 perial Eagle, but which Dr. Cullen, for reasons quoted by 

 Dr. Bree at pp. 65, 66, 67, 97, and 98 of his first volume, 

 afiirms to be specifically distinct f. 



enjoining him to put off his dark jacket and turban. Having a light- 

 coloui'ed blanket ■with him, he tied a large knot at one corner, and making 

 use of this temporary cloak, which hid the whole man and his gun, he 

 proceeded to stalk her : as he neared the place she flew up from the long 

 gTass and perched on a low dead tree, and allowed him to get within easy- 

 shot. After she was shot we went to the spot from which she had risen 

 and found a Corncias indica, with most of the body eaten ; I did not think 

 such a large bird would have taken such small prey." The circumstance 

 mentioned by Mr. Brooks of this large Eagle pouncing on a Roller seems 

 to me to be very remarkable and worthy of record. 



* These valuable papers have been already alluded to in ' The Ibis ' for 

 1870, p. GO, and for 1871, p. 418. 



t An instance of an Imperial Eagle having been kept in confinement 

 for seven years "without losing the striated plumage of the young bird " 

 is recorded by Messrs. Danford and Harvie Brown in ' The Ibis ' for 1875, 

 p. 294. I think there is little doubt that in this case, and in another 



