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THE SPOTTED EAGLE. 



Aquila N-iviA (J. E. (imelin). 



In January 1845 two examples of this rare wanderer to the British 

 Islands were shot near Youghal in Ireland, and one of them — an 

 immature bird — is preserved in the Museum of Trinity College, 

 Dublin. On December 4th 1S60, and early in November 1861, 

 two young males were shot in Cornwall, as recorded by the late 

 E. H. Rodd; Mr. Durnford states that one was picked up dead 

 on '\^'alney Island, Lancashire, in 1875 : and on October 31st 1885 

 an example was obtained in Northumberland. 



It is probable that the specific name generally employed was 

 originally intended for a small form which breeds in the forests of 

 Northern Germany, and becomes numerous in I'omerania and the 

 Baltic Provinces of Russia, though rare on the eastern side of the 

 Gulf of Bothnia, and only a straggler to Sweden and Lapland. 

 Southward this can be traced through Poland and ihe marshy woods 



