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



With reference to the western range of Aquila clanga, I 

 may mention that I recently had an opportunity of examin- 

 ing the two immature Spotted Eagles killed in Cornwall, and 

 recorded in the ' Zoologist ' for 1861, pp. 7311 and 7817, and 

 found them both to be examples of this species. 



It seems certain that the larger Spotted Eagle has occurred 

 both in France and in Spain; and I am indebted to the 

 kindness of Mr. Howard Saunders for permission to quote 

 the following remarks, from a letter with which he has 

 favoured me, on this subject : — 



" I was very much hurried during my visit to the Bayonne 

 Museum ; still I think I may state pretty positively that the 

 two Spotted Eagles there, as also the one in the Bordeaux 

 Museum, killed in the environs (all three young birds), are 

 of the larger form, much larger than the small Pomeranian 



bird Speaking from memory, I should say that the 



spotted specimen in the Valencian (Eastern Spain) Museum is 

 a very large female. As regards the Seville and Jerez specimens 

 I am, after this lapse of time, barely sure of their existence. 

 But of this I am sure ; all those that I recollect seeing in 

 South Europe were young, and, I fancy, all of the large form. 

 I am sorry I did not take measurements." 



The southern range of this Eagle is also somewhat more ex- 

 tended than has been recorded by Mr. Sharpe; it is a regular 

 winter visitant to Egypt^, and it extends its migrations still far- 

 ther southward. Von Heuglin, in his 'SystematischeUeber- 

 sicht,^p.6,has a note, of which the following is a translation: — 

 "Aquila ncevia, Linn., is very common on the great lakes in 

 Lower Egypt. In March and October it is travelling, often 

 in companies of as many as ten individuals, throughout the 

 whole of North-eastern Africa ; the variety A. clanga (Pall. 

 and Naum.) is as frequent as the genuine A. n(evia"-f. 



Last year I saw an adult pair of A. clanga living in the 

 Zoological Gardens at Antwerp, which I was assured had 

 been brought from Seunaar, and which are the most southerly 



* Conf. ' Rambles of a Naturalist,' by J. H. Gurney, jun., pp. 132 

 and 244. 



t Conf. Von. Heuglin's ' Orn. Nordost-Afrika's,' vol. i. p. 47. 



