224 Mr. J. H. Gurney's Notes on 



remark : — " I have no data as to its occurrence in Northern 

 Africa, and am unable to say how far south those birds which 

 are found passing the Bosphorus on their journey southward 

 extend their range/' It is certainly remarkable that African 

 specimens of this Eagle should be so rare in collections as 

 appears to be the case ; I only recollect to have examined 

 two, both, apparently, adult males : one of these is from 

 Abyssinia^, and is preserved in the Museum at Brussels ; the 

 other was obtained in or near Damara Land by the late Mr. 

 C. J. Andersson, by whom it was presented to the Museum 

 at Norwich, where it still remains f- 



Besides the continent of Africa, the district of Upper Pegu 

 must be added to the localities quoted by Mr. Sharpe for this 

 species {vide ' Stray Feathers' for 1875, p. 25). 



I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. W. E. Brooks for 

 the following anecdote relating to A. nipalensis as observed 

 in India : — " One of my men once shot a large female A. 

 nipalensis, which, he said, had struck down a fox and partly 

 eaten it ; in the capture it was assisted by two other birds of 



the same species Hodgson, in one of his notes, describes 



taking portions of a jackal out of the crop of one of these 

 birds." 



Some curious and valuable observations on the habits of 

 this Eagle are also contained in Prjevalsky's Mongolian notes, 

 to which I have already referred {vide ' Ornithological Mis- 

 cellany,' pt. 6, p. 144). 



The next three Eagles which I propose to notice are closely 

 connected with the three last to which I have alluded, but are 

 still more closely connected with each other. These are : — 

 A. rapax (or, as it has been more frequently called, A. ncevi- 

 oides); A. albicans, which Mr. Sharpe and most other autho- 



* Dr. A. Breliin's Aquila raptor ( ' Naumauuia,' 1855, p. 1.3) appears to 

 me, by the description given, to be probably identical with this species, 

 although quoted by Mr. Sharpe as a synonym of A. rapax ; Brehm's ex- 

 amples were obtained in the Bogos country, where, however, he only 

 appears to have occasionally met with it. 



t When I edited Mr. Andersson's notes on the birds of Damara Land, 

 I was under the impression that this specimen was a dark variety of .4. 

 rapax, and therefore did not enumerale it as distinct from thai species. 



