96 FALCONID^5. 



Genus AQUILA, Brisson, Ornith. i. p. 419 (1760). 



Aquila = an Eagle, in classical Latin ; from the root of aquilus = dark, 

 = mist, &XP S sallow. 



Aquila clanga. SPOTTED EAGLE. 



Aquila clanga, Pall. Zoogr. H.-A. i. p. 351 



(1811). 



Falco clanga, Naum. xiii. p. 40. 



A.quila naevia, Hewitson, p. 18 ; Gray, p. 4 ; Yarr. ed. 2, i. 



p. 10*; id. ed. 3, i. p. 20; Newton, i. p. 20; Gould, i. 



pi. 3 ; Harting, p. 83. 

 Aquila clanga, Dresser, v. p. 499. 



Clanga, from /cXayy?/ = a scream, from its noisy cry. 



Breeds in certain forests of Central and South-eastern 

 Europe going south in winter. A very scarce visitor to Great 

 Britain and Ireland. , Cf. Gurney, Ibis, 1877, p. 332. 



Aquila chrysaetus. GOLDEN EAGLE. 



Falco Chrysaetos, Linnaeus, S . N, i. p. 125 

 (1766). 



Falco fulvus, Naum. i. p. 208. 



Aquila chrysaetus, Macg. iii. p. 204; Newton, i. p. 11 ; Harting, 



p. 3 ; Dresser, v. p. 533. 

 Aquila chrysaetos, Hewitson, p. 8 ; Gray, p. 3 ; Yarr. ed. 2, 



i. p. 11 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 11 ; Gould, i. pi. 2. 

 The Golden Eagle, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 7. 



Chrysaetus = xpwderos, the Golden Eagle, in ^Elian, N. A. ii. 39 ; from 

 + aeros. 



An inhabitant of the Palaearctic and Nearctic Regions ; 

 a resident in some of the mountainous parts of Scotland and 

 Ireland ; occasionally occurring in England. 



