BONELLI'S EAGLE 



BOHEMIA. 



AMONG the sporting trophies in Prince Fiirstenberg's castle 

 of Lana, about sixteen miles west of Prague, I saw a stuffed 

 Eagle which I at once took to be Aquila bonellii ; but although 

 I had often observed this southern bird in its native haunts, 

 seen it in collections, and received many skins of it, I did not 

 wish to announce the interesting fact simply on my own 

 authority. 



The valuable specimen was, however, most kindly placed 

 at my disposal for a few days, and I hastened to send it to 

 Eugeii von Homeyer at Stolp, since his decision would hardly 

 be questioned by any naturalist, and he replied that it cer- 

 tainly was a Bonelli's Eagle in the first plumage. 



I must now give the data concerning it just as they were 

 communicated to me : 



The Eagle was killed by a keeper named Franz Kratina, 

 between the 20th and 31st of July, 1866. He shot it in the 

 hayfields on the Finkova, about three o'clock in the afternoon. 

 It came flying from the Maxthal in the direction of the black 



