12 RAPTORIAL BIRDS 
one species, the large wedge-tailed Eagle of Australia, 
which occupies this place because the conformation 
of its head, neck, and tail, appear to offer some special 
points of affinity to the genus Gyfaéetus, which it im- 
mediately succeeds. 
The next genus, Agzz/a, contains all the most typi- 
cal Eagles, of which the Golden Eagle is the best 
known as being the only feathered-legged Eagle, 
which is a native of the British Islands. 
This magnificent bird, some two hundred years ago, 
nested amongst the rocks of Derbyshire, but it now 
only occurs in England as an occasional straggler, 
though a few pairs still nest in the Highlands of Scot- 
land, on estates where they are not allowed to be 
destroyed. The greater number of the Scotch Goiden 
Eagles have, however, been exterminated in conse- 
quence of their destroying lambs, fawns, grouse, and 
mountain hares, which appear to constitute their chief 
food. The Golden Eagle is found in Europe, North 
Africa, Asia, and North America, and is the only 
species of the genus which occurs in America, al- 
though the other species, to which our space will not 
allow us to refer in detail, have a wide distribution 
over the warm and temperate countries of the Old 
World. 
The genus (Veopus, which follows Aguwz/a, is limited 
to two Oriental species, of which the best known is 
that called JVeopus malayensis, which has frequently 
come under the notice of Indian Ornithologists as a 
