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but the deep guttural note that it utters, when, believing itself 

 to be in perfect security, it either circles round its dwelling 

 or hunts about on misty November days. 



These two eagles screamed incessantly, both flying and 

 sitting, and it was the first time that I had ever heard an eagle 

 do so when at a carcass. After a while a third bird joined 

 them, but soon left its comrades and came rushing down a 

 few yards from our hiding-place. I killed it with my shot- 

 gun, whereupon the Vultures, Black Kites, Ravens, and 

 Magpies rose in affright from the ground and the neighbour- 

 ing trees, and the two other eagles also sailed off to the 

 depths of the woods in ever-widening circles. 



For two whole days I rambled through the preserves of 

 the Pardo, but never again did I manage to see an eagle of 

 this species, and it was in the pine-woods near the coast that 

 I first got a distant glimpse of another similarly light-coloured 

 bird. I also found in a low pine-tree a nest about the size of 

 an Imperial Eagle's, which, according to the Spaniard who 

 was with me, belonged to the "Aquila carnielita," as this 

 pale-plurnaged bird is called. 



In no other part of Spain did I come across it, but when 

 riding in Morocco through a valley, girt with rocky hills 

 covered with dense bushes, I saw a light-yellow eagle fly 

 slowly away close to the ground, about a hundred paces off, and 

 one of my attendants observed another at a different place. 



I have now mentioned all the occasions on which I saw 

 this doubtful species in the open, but I also noticed stuffed 

 specimens of it in the collections at Madrid, Valencia, and 

 Lisbon. These were generally in the same immature plumage, 

 but some were darker. I could never quite make up my 

 mind on the question, and therefore direct the attention of 

 the next ornithologist who travels in Spain to the subject. 



Aquila adalberti or leucomela was discovered by Doctor R. 



