FROM SPAIN. 487 



V. 



THE "STEIN" EAGLE (Aguila fulva) AND 

 THE SPANISH IMPERIAL EAGLE (Aguila 



adalberti). 



HAVING already treated of the " Stein " Eagle, I can only 

 add the few short notes that I have collected concerning its 

 occurrence in Spain. 



There it is much rarer than I imagined, for although that 

 country is so well provided with high mountains and rocks, 

 and seems to offer it splendid places of residence, one is never- 

 theless much mistaken in expecting to find it everywhere. 



I never met with it in the plains, and in many of the 

 mountains it occurred either very sparingly or not at all. 

 On the well-known range of Monserrat, for instance, where 

 the towering precipices would afford it excellent nesting- 

 places, I saw no " Stein " Eagles, and 'even the herdsmen 

 could tell me nothing about them. 



In the royal park of the Pardo at Madrid one appeared 

 near a carcass, but only circled once round the place and then 

 immediately flew far away. In the neighbourhood of Murcia 

 rise some barren bright yellow mountains perfectly devoid of 

 vegetation, and there a friend of mine found a nest on a low, 

 easily accessible cliff; but though he waited a whole day for 

 the return of the old bird, he only saw it cruising in the 

 distance. 



Isolated nests of this eagle exist in the Sierra de Ronda; 

 a certain proof of this being that I received from a peasant a 

 young bird in the down, just taken from a nest in that 



