454 AQUILA CHRYSAETUS. 



three<quarters, the stomach two inches and a quarter 

 in length. 



The pylorus, which is close to the cardiac orifice, has 

 two longitudinal converging folds on one side, and a 

 roundish knob on the other, so that it may be described 

 as having three valves beneath the margin. The in- 

 testine is only three-twelfths in diameter at its com- 

 mencement, but immediately enlarges to ten-twelfths, 

 and continues so for about a foot, when it gradually 

 contracts, and near the coeca has a diameter of only 

 three-twelfths. The rectum, or large intestine, is seven 

 inches long. The two coeca are nearly a quarter of an 

 inch long, cylindrical and rounded. The length of the 

 intestine, five feet six inches. That of another indivi- 

 dual, also shewn to me by Mr Jameson, was four feet 

 three inches. 



The intestinal canal of this species might be equally 

 well represented by Plate I. as that of the Common 

 Buzzard, they being almost precisely similar. 



I have to add with respect to this species, that its 

 cry is similar to that of the White-tailed Sea-Eagle, 

 deeper or more mellow, and rather louder. The same 

 syllables klook, klook, klook, represent it. 



My friend Mr Brand, W. S., Edinburgh, obtained 

 for me the following information from Mr Robert Inglis, 

 Invermark, Lochlee, Forfarshire : — '• We have at least 

 one species of eagle. If the Ring-tailed species, as 

 some naturalists affirm, be the same as the Golden 

 Eagle, the difference of appearance being accounted for 

 by the supposition that the former is only the young of 

 the latter, it is the Golden Eagle which we have. The 

 last one which I shot had the ring distinctly marked. 



