BONEELDY S BAGH E 
OOM cy Moa 
AmonG the sporting trophies in Prince Fiirstenberg’s castle 
of Lana, about sixteen miles west of Prague, I saw a stuffed 
Eagle which I at once took to be Aquila bonellii ; but although 
I had often observed this southern bird in its native haunts, 
seen it in collections, and received many skins of it, I did not 
wish to announce the interesting fact simply on my own 
authority. 
The valuable specimen was, however, most kindly placed 
at my disposal for a few days, and I hastened to send it to 
Eugen von Homeyer at Stolp, since his decision would hardly 
be questioned by any naturalist, and he replied that it cer- 
tainly was a Bonelli’s Eagle in the first plumage. 
I must now give the data concerning it just as they were 
communicated to me :— 
The Eagle was killed by a keeper named Franz Kratina, 
between the 20th and 31st of July, 1866. He shot it in the 
hayfields on the Finkova, about three o’clock in the afternoon. 
It came flying from the Maxthal in the direction of the black 
