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Eagles (whose favourite food with us is unquestionably* frogs,) 
rapidly followed its course. 
This bird, generally sits in a very slouching kite-like fashion, 
across a branch, half way up a tree. Fu/vescens, on the other 
hand, more commonly sits bolt upright, in the centre of the very 
top of a tree; so that, when looking from a distance, you see his 
head and half his body, against the clear sky above the very top 
of the tree, while when close to the tree, you cannot see him at 
all. Imperiatlis too, often adopts a similar position. 
If Clanga be a true species, and not a form of Imperialis, as I 
cannot help suspecting, it is curious that the true Vevia should 
occur in India and western Europe and Clanga in Palestine. 
Mr. Tristram (Ibis, 1865) tells us, that the Spotted Hagle is 
“much more common in winter than in summer on the plains. 
We observed it only two or three times in the Lebanon in 
spring. Mr. Gurney has pronounced a specimen I showed to 
him, to belong to the large form described by Pallas as Aguila 
Clanga. I found one nest in a tree, between Nazareth and 
Caiffa.”’ 
I now give, in a tabular form, exact measurements of eleven 
specimens. ‘These are not perhaps well chosen, but they are 
all I have by me, and they were all recorded from the fresh 
bird, with the utmost care. 
As in the case with Imperialis, so here, one of my reasons for 
believing in the specific identity of all the various forms here- 
after to be described, (and the dimensions of whose representa- 
tives, I am now about to give) is the close structural resemblance 
of all these latter in every minute detail. 
* T have unfortunately not preserved a record of the contents of the 
stomachs in more than thirteen cases. In eleven of these “ Frogs and Toads, 
chiefly small” are recorded. One I shot in the act of eating part of the liver 
of an Antelope we had killed, and one had eaten a Rat. 
