11* FALCONID.E. 



indebted to the kindness of Mr. Robert Davis, Jim., of 

 Clonmel, who sent me also a coloured drawing made from 

 the bird, and from which the representation here given 

 was copied. 



" 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, but 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. 



This Eagle, very similar in appearance to our well- 

 known Golden Eagle, but almost one-third smaller in size, 

 inhabits the Apennines and other mountains of central 

 Europe, occasionally diverging as far north as Eussia and 

 Siberia, and as far south as Egypt ; its range to the east- 

 ward from Europe extending as far in India as Nepal and 

 Calcutta. It builds on high trees, laying two eggs of a 

 light colour, slightly marked with red. The food is small 

 quadrupeds and birds. 



From the late period, in reference to the printing of 

 these volumes, at which the occurrence of this species be- 

 came known to me, I can only here introduce it on a single 

 leaf, and refer to figures for its appearance at different ages. 



The illustration here given represents the bird in its 

 first year ; Mr. Gould's figure is from a bird in its second 

 year ; the figure in Werner's Illustrations of M. Tem- 

 minck's Manual is from an adult bird. 



