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Atkinson in his travels on the Amoor describes and figures a 

 scene which he asserts he witnessed himself. Some wolves had' 

 pulled down a deer, when two Golden Eagles came down from a 

 vast height, attacked the wolves, killed two of them, and pulled their 

 livers out. Jerd. B. I. I, 57. 



Work havoc among moor-fowl, yet it is questionable whether 

 more good than harm is not done by the destruction of weakly game. 

 B. B. C. N. H., 149. 



1201. Aquila heliaca. Imperial Eagle. Feeds much on carri- 

 on, though it also kills small mammals, birds, and lizards for food. 

 F. I. Ill, 335. 



" It pounces on hares, florikins, rats, lizards, and various other 

 mammals and birds, and in default of these will eat carrion. I 

 have several times seen one captured in a net by a portion of the car- 

 case of a sheep being put down as a bait/' In captivity prefers 

 raw meat to birds or animals alive or dead. Jerd. B. I. I, 337. 



1202. Aquila bifasjata. Steppe Eagle. Same habits as A. 

 heliaca. 



1203. Aquila vindhiana. Indian Tawny Eagle. Frequently 

 carries off chickens, ducklings, and other poultry. It feeds occa- 

 sionally on hares, partridges, and other game, also rats, lizards 

 snakes, and even insects, and will always descend to fresh carcases 

 of sheep. It, however, habitually subsists by robbing kites, falcors. 

 etc. I once saw a pair of ' Woklabsj 5 kill a florikin Otis aurita. 

 Jerd. B. I. I, 61. Small mammals, lizard, snake or frog, and shares 

 carcases of dead bullocks with vultures. Robs Accipitrine birds, 

 nuisance in falconry, mistaking jesses for prey. F. I. Ill, 339. 

 This bird eats anything in the way of flesh it can obtain. If the op- 

 portunity offers, it will pounce on a squirrel, a small bird, a lizard, or 

 a frog, but it is a comparatively sluggish creature, and so robs other 

 Raptores in preference to catching its own quarry. Dewar, B. P., 

 176. Sypheotis aurita. Jerd. B. I., 623. H. M., 338. 



1204. Aquila fu 1 veswns.- Brook's Eagle. Partly on frogs, 

 F, 1. Ill, 340 t 



