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and we also possess specimens from New Holland, 

 while it has been remitted by Seibold from Japan. 

 Among the Aquiline group the eggs still retain 

 the comparatively rounded form, but the ground 

 colour is pale, and there is a want of very decided 

 markings. 



PLATE XI. 



Eggs of Golden Eagle and Osprey, 



will illustrate the eggs of two birds belonging to 

 this group. Fig. 1, that of the Golden Eagle, is 

 a variety more than usually blotched with mark- 

 Ings of rich purplish brown. It was procured in 

 the county of Sutherland. Fig. 2, the Osprey, 

 was taken from a nest in Loch Menteith. The 

 egg of the Sea Eagle is commonly almost pure 

 white, or very slightly blotched. 



AQUILA, generic characters. Bill lengthened, 

 straight at the base, but much hooked towards 

 the tip ; edges of the mandible with a faint 

 obtuse lobe ; nostrils oval, and placed trans- 

 versely ; wings with the fourth and fifth 

 quills longest ; tarsi and feet strong, the 

 former feathered for the whole or a portion 

 of their length ; toes comparatively short ; 

 claws remarkably strong and hooked, grooved 

 beneath, outer and hind claws longest. 



