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 EAGLE, SPOTTED. 



EALCO N^VIUS, Temm. 



The Spotted Eagle is found in India, Asia Minor, 

 Siberia, Northern Africa, France, &c. The adult 

 bird is very like the Golden Eagle in appearance, 

 but about one third smaller. The fact that the 

 young birds of the year have the tips of all the 

 small and large wing-coverts and the tail feathers 

 marked with a patch of pale wood brown has 

 given rise to the name of Spotted Eagle. In this 

 stage of plumage two or three of them have 

 been taken in Great Britain. One, on the authority 

 of Mr. Eobert Davis, of Clonmel, was shot in 

 January, 1845, on the estate of the Earl of Shan- 

 non, and is now in the possession of Samuel Moss 

 of Youghal, County Cork ; and another is reported 

 as having been killed in Cornwall in December, 

 1860, on the estate of Mr. Eodd, of Irebartha Hall, 

 in a large covert adjoining the open and extensive 

 moors near the Cheese-ring and Kilmar. The 

 Spotted Eagle builds on high trees, and lays two 

 .whitish eggs, slightly streaked with red. 



