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attention. To begin with, Brelim, in his ' Life of Animals ' 

 (1878), gives us an Aquila chrysaetus nearly 80, which had 

 died in captivity at Schoenbrun. At this place also' a white- 

 headed Vulture died in. 1824, at the age of 118 (Knauer, 

 'Der Naturhistoriker ^), 



According to Maitland^s ^History of London' (1756), there 

 was in 1754, in the Tower of London menagerie, '' a Golden 

 Eagle which has been kept there uj)wards of ninety years, 

 and several other Eagles/' 



The ' Berlin Post ' (as quoted by the ' Times ' of Sept. 8, 

 1883, I'eprinted Zool. vii. p. 422) relates a story of an 

 Imperial Eagle (qu. A. imperialis or A. adalberti?) taken 

 that year in Brandenburg ringed with a plate on which was 

 engraved "H.Ks. O. K.," and underneath " Eperjes," and 

 on the other side " 10. 9. 1827," which makes the bird 56 

 years old. Eperjes is in Upper Hungary, and in the opinion 

 of Dr. J. von Madarasz the first two letters stand for the 

 owner's name. 



Long ago there was at Vienna a reputed Eagle of 104, 

 which has done duty in many books without reference to 

 the original passage recording it. It will be found in 

 John G. Keysler's 'Travels through Germany' (i. p. 70), 

 where the Eagle is affirmed to have lived in confinement 

 from 1615 to 1719. Keysler's work was first published in 

 German, and the history of this Eagle seems to have been 

 told him at Munich in 1829. 



According to an extract from the ' Naturalien Cabinet ' of 

 Oct. 5, 1897, kindly sent me by Dr. P. Leverkiihn, a Royal 

 or Golden Eagle had been recently shot at Eszeg, in Slavonia, 

 with a steel ring round its neck engraved with the arms and 

 name of a Slavonian family, and above them the date 1646. 

 The story was copied into some of the English newspapers, 

 but Mr. Tschusi, the editor, has informed Dr. Leverkiihn 

 that he discredits it, and it seems incredible. 



In the ' Gentleman's Magazine ' for 1793, p. 181, it is 

 related how a Hawk, probably Falco peregrinus, had been 

 found at the Cape of Good Hope and brought from thence 

 by one of the India ships, having on its neck a gold collar 



