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fresh eggs. These had a bluish white ground blotched all over, 
but thinly and very feebly, with pale dingy reddish brown ; and 
they measured, the one, 2°62 by 2, and the other 2°51 by 2. 
The eggs were therefore considerably smaller than those above 
described, while the female, which I shot as she left the nest, 
was a much younger and smaller one than the magnificent 
bird first killed.” 
Mr. Tyrwhitt Drake, in his notes on the Birds of Tangiers 
and Hastern Morocco, tells us that this species breeds at Tetuan 
and also at Cape Spartel. 
Mr. Tristram in the Ibis for 1865, writing of Palestine, 
remarks— 
“ Bonelli’s Eagle is rather common in every part of the 
country ; but seems to avoid the plains, being much attached to 
the wadys and rocky terraces with which the country abounds. 
Most of the birds we saw were in the adult plumage; but in 
early spring we noted several with the ruddy breast of the 
second year’s plumage, which evidently had not paired. It 
frequents the gardens behind Sidon and Jaffa, but is more 
generally found in the wooded hill regions about Carmel, Tabor, 
and the Lake of Galilee, from which places we procured the 
egos in April, as well as two nests of one egg each in the 
neighbourhood of Gerasch, east of the mountains of Gilead. It 
does not appear to lay till the end of March ; and then gene- 
rally a single egg. These are either white, or with the faintest 
russet spots. One nest, which contained two eggs, both fairly 
coloured, baffled all our attempts at its capture. It was com- 
fortably placed under an overhanging piece of rock near the 
top of the cliffs of Wady Hamam, m such a position that no 
rope could be thrown over to let down an adventurous climber ; 
and yet from another point, which projected nearly parallel to 
it, we could look into the nest with longing eyes.” 
Mr. W. H. Simpson, in his notes on the birds of Mesolonghi 
and Southern Etolia, gives the following account of the nest 
and eggs of a Bonelli’s Hagle which he took on the 27th of 
February. 
“This done I was in possession, and able to make a closer 
inspection of the nest itself, which consisted principally of 
branches of wild olive, terebinth and thorn, arranged according 
to their size. There was no lining of wool, as is usual in 
Hagles’ nests, but the eggs lay on a thin layer of olive leayes. 
The eggs themselves, which I retain in my collection, are 
slightly unequal in size. The larger is of a smooth texture and 
bluish white ground colour, very sparingly marked with rust- 
coloured spots and minute dottings.”’ 
