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Neophron percnopterus is recorded as occurring in Cyprus 

 by linger and Kotschy tj but was not met with by any of us. 



3. Imperial Eagle. Aquila heliacaX. 



I did not identify this or, indeed, any other species of 

 Eagle during my stay on the coasts of Cyprus ; but I was 

 offered a fresh, unblown Eagle's egg at Trikhorao in April, 

 1875, which, as I was then informed, had been taken in 

 that neighbourhood a few days before I saw it, and was, I 

 may confidently state, produced by an Eagle of this species. 

 Guillemard found the head of an Imperial Eagle hanging up 

 at a cottage door along with those of a Demoiselle Crane and a 

 Buff-backed Egret, during his first expedition to Cyprus; 

 this Eagle's head was submitted by me to Mr. John Henry 

 Gurney, Sen., who identified it as above. Guillemard men- 

 tions having frequently seen Eagles in Cyprus at too great a 

 distance for identification. *' West Kent" ( = Major Jones, 

 late of the 50th Foot) states in the ' Field ' of May 11th, 1889, 

 that the White-tailed Eagle [Haliaetus albicilla) is sometimes 

 met with in Cyprus. G. 



4. BoNELLi's Eagle. Nisaetus fasciatus. 



Guillemard brought home a young female of this species 

 killed by a native sportsman at some cliffs within a few miles 

 of the old Phoenician copper-mines at Limui, on the bay of 

 Chrysokkou, near the north-western extremity of Cyprus. 

 The date on the label attached to this specimen is June 4, 

 1887, a very late period at which to find some of the nestling 

 down still attached, as it is in this instance, to a Bonelli's 

 Eagle. *. G. 



5. Saker. Falco sacer. 



I received an adult male of this species from Pcarse, 

 labelled Bella, October 14, 1878. Neither Guillemard nor 

 I even met with the Saker in Cyprus. *. P. 



t ' Die lusel Cyperu.' Wien, 18G5. 



t [There is an Eagle now living in the Zoological Society's Gardens, 

 presented by Col. E. L. Eraser, June 17th, 1887, "from Cyprus." It has 

 been hitherto labelled Aquila mevioides, but is probably A. heliuca. — 



r. L. s.] 



