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PREFACE 



THE SECOND EDITION. 



THE preparation of a second edition of the History of 

 our British Birds enables me to record the occurrence of 

 eleven species new to Britain, which will be found arranged 

 in their places in these volumes ; I have also availed myself 

 of several recent ornithological publications referring to the 

 islands and shores of the Mediterranean, as well as to 

 India, to include numerous localities in which some of our 

 British Birds are either resident or seasonal visiters. 



The SPOTTED EAGLE. Aquila navia ; vol. i. page 10.* 

 From the lateness of the period, in reference to the 

 printing of these volumes, at which the occurrence of two 

 examples of this species in Ireland became known to me, 

 I was only able to introduce a figure and a short notice 

 on a single leaf in its place among the Eagles. The fur- 

 ther particulars here inserted may prove acceptable. 



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 



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