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of Clonmel, who sent me also a coloured drawing made 

 from the bird, and from which the representation here 

 given was copied. The bird is now preserved in the 

 museum of the University of Dublin. 



" This specimen," observes Mr. Davis, " which is the 

 property of my friend Samuel Moss of Youghal, county 

 of Cork, was shot in the month of January of the present 

 year, 1845, on the estate of the Earl of Shannon, and 

 was at the time in a fallow field devouring a rabbit. 

 Another bird similarly marked, but reported to have been 

 of a lighter shade of brown, was shot at the same place 

 within a few days, lout was unfortunately not preserved ; 

 both had been noticed during the two previous months 

 sweeping over the low grounds in the neighbourhood, 

 which is near Youghal, and between Castle Martyr and 

 Clay Castle." 



The late William Thompson, Esq., of Belfast, in his 

 Natural History of the Birds of Ireland, observes, " he 

 had little doubt also, that a bird particularly described 

 to himself, when visiting Horn Head (Donegal), in 1832, 

 as having been shot there the previous year, was of this 

 species." 



In the Zoologist for 1846, page 1246, Mr. Richard 

 Weaver of Birmingham states that he saw a tame bird 

 of this species on Valentia Island, on the west coast of 

 Ireland, in May, 1840, that it was well known there, and 

 that a pair of them had bred regularly on the rocks on the 

 island. 



This Eagle, very similar in its appearance to our well- 

 known Golden Eagle, but almost one-third smaller in 

 size, inhabits the Apennines and other mountains of 

 central Europe. It is le petit Aigle ou Aigle tachete 

 of the Animal Kingdom of Baron Cuvier, who mentions 



