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HAGLE, SPOT: 
Fatco nzvius, Zemm. 
This species is found in India, Asia Minor, 
Siberia, Northern Africa, France, &c. The adult 
bird is very like the Golden Eagle in appearance, 
but about one third smaller. The fact that the 
young birds of the year have the tips of all the 
small and large wing-coverts and the tail feathers 
marked with a patch of pale wood brown has 
given rise to the name of Spotted Hagle. In this 
stage of plumage two or three individuals have 
been taken in Great Britain. One, on the authority 
of Mr. Robert Davis, of Clonmel, was shot in 
January, 1845, on the estate of the Earl of Shan- 
non, and is now in the possession of Samuel Moss 
of Youghal, County Cork; and another is reported 
as having been killed in Cornwall in December, 
1860, on the estate of Mr. Rodd, of Irebartha Hall, 
in a large covert adjoming the open and extensive 
moors near the Cheese-ring and Kilmar. The 
Spotted Eagle builds on high trees, and lays two 
whitish eggs, slightly streaked with red. 
