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3rd, Sex not stated, immature, November 1861, shot near 

 St. Columb, Cornwall {id., t.c, p. 7817). Unfortunately the 

 sex is not given and only the length of the bird, which is 

 useless. From the description, in which it is stated that the 

 yellow spots over the back and scapulars are even more pre- 

 dominant than in the i860 example, it is evident that this 

 bird was also A. clanga. In his Birds of Cornwall (p. 5), Rodd 

 states that this bird is in the Truro Museum, while the first 

 appears to have been in his own collection. With reference 

 to these two examples, the late J. H. Gurney (senr.), an 

 authority on the Accipitres, stated in the Ibis (1877, p. 332), 

 that he had examined them both and found them to be 

 examples of .4. clanga. Dresser also examined the one at 

 Trebartha and came to the same conclusion, stating that it 

 is a " very dark boldly-spotted bird " and adds that the St. 

 Columb specimen in the Truro Museum had been destroyed 

 by moth! {Zool., 1885, p. 230.) 



4th, Male, December 28th, 1861, shot near Somerley, near 

 Ringwood, Hants. (Wise, New Forest ; Kelsall and Munn, 

 Birds of Hants., p. 152 ; Saunders, Manual 2nd ed., p. 325). 

 Unfortunately no details are given, but the bird is in the 

 collection of Lord Normanton at Somerley and should be 

 critically examined. 



5th, One is stated to have been picked up dead on Walney 

 Island, Lancashire, and examined by Mr. W. A. Durnford, 

 in 1875, but there are no further particulars and it seems 

 doubtful if the bird was preserved {Birds of Lanes., 2nd ed., 

 P- 125.) 



6th, Sex not given, immature, shot October 31st, 1885, at 

 Cresswell, Northumberland (Saunders, loo. cit., and G. Bolam, 

 Birds of Northumberland, p. 273). Mr. Bolam examined this 

 bird which was " deep rich brown conspicuously spotted with 

 creamy white." He gives the wing measurement as 2oi 

 inches (= 52 cm.), which is larger than any A. pomarina, 

 even a female, and from this and the description of the 

 colouring and spots, there is no doubt this bird is A. clanga. 



7th, 8th and 9th, In October and November 1891, three 

 or more Spotted Eagles were reported in Essex and Suffolk, 

 as follows : — ^One caught October 2Qth, at Elmstead, neai 

 Colchester (H. Laver, Zool., 1891, p. 470). Male immature, 

 shot Noveml:)er 4th, at Sudbourne, Wickham Market, Suffolk. 

 Another bird had been seen in its company (Pratt and Son, 

 t.c, 1892, p. 25). Another immature bird was shot at Leigh, 

 Essex, on November 3rd (Miller Christy, t.c, 1892, p. 76). 

 Mr. Miller Christy also states {Vict. Hist. Essex), that an Eagle 

 seen about Bardfield, throughout the following December, 



