AQUILA. 263 



Bulgardagh, Taurus, Asia Minor, Seebohm Coll. 



30th March (C. G. 1).). 

 Hursil, Gurhwal, Himalayas, 9000 Hume Coll. 



feet, Feb. (F. Wilson). 

 Japan (H. Pryer). Seebohm Coll. 



Aquila heliaca, Saviyn. 



Falco imperialis, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vb'g. tab. xlvi. fig. 5, a-c (1845- 



54) ; Bree, Birds Eur. i. p. 58, pi. (1867). 

 Aquila heliaca, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 25. fig. 2 (1855-63) ; Ehves 



$ Buckley, Ibis, 1870, p. 66; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. i. p. 238 



(1874) ; Bree, t. c. 2nd ed. i. p. 64, pi. (1875) ; Tacz. Faune Orn. 



Siber. Orient, p. 17 (1891) ; Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 334 



(1895); Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 261 (1899). 

 Aquila imperialis, Simpson, Ibis, 1860, p. 376, pi. xii. tig. 3. 

 Aquila mogilnik, Dresser, Birds Eur. v. p. 521 (1873) ; Danford, Ibis, 



1878, p. 4. 

 Avidia bifasciata, Gates ed* Hume, Nests fy Eggs Ind. Birds, iii. p. 131 



(1890). 



The eggs of the Imperial Eagle are of a broad oval form, in some 

 cases approaching the spheroidal. The shell is rather rough and is 

 occasionally slightly glossy. Many specimens are plain white or 

 yellowish white ; the majority are feebly blotched and spotted with 

 pale rufous, yellowish brown, brownish pink, and underlying 

 neutral-tint. Only one specimen in the series is at all richly 

 coloured, and this is densely mottled all over with rufous and 

 yellowish brown. They measure from 2'6 to 3' 15 in length, and 

 from 1-9 to 2'4 in breadth. 



1. Europe. Old Collection. 



2. Bulgaria, 20th April (Elwes $ Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Buckley}. 



1. Bulgaria (E. $ B.}. Seebohm Coll. 



1. Bulgaria, 9th April (E. #. B.*). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Kustendji, Dobrudscha, 7th April Crowley Bequest. 



(W.H. Cullen: Tristram Coll.}. 



2. Kustendji, 25th April ( W. H. C. : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



2. Greece (T. Kriiper: Hargitt Coll.}. Seebohm Coll. 



1. Greece (Hargitt Coll}. Seebohm Coll. 



2. Parnassus, Greece, 12th May (H. Seebohm Coll. 



Seehohm). 



1. Parnassus, 16th May (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



1. South Russia (Russoiv). Seebohm Coll. 



2. South Russia. Seebohm Coll. 

 1. Volga (Hargitt Coll.}. Seebohm Coll. 



1. Kaiseriyeh, Asia Minor, 7th May Seebohm Coll. 



(C. G. Danford}. 



2. Boghas-lu-Khan, Asia Minor, 9th Seebohm Coll. 



May (C. G. Z>.). 



1. Boghas-lu-Khan, 10th Mav (C. G. Seebohm Coll. 



D.}. 



2. Smyrna, April (T. Kriiper}. Seebohm Coll. 

 1. Smyrna, April (T. K.}. Seebohm Coll. 



