172 Lord Lilford on the Ornithology of Spain, 



than once in^ 1 think^ New Castile. I have also heard of its 

 occurrence near Valencia. 



The Spotted Eagle {Aquila navia) appears to be rare in Spain, 

 and I never savi^ it alive in any part of the country. The Seville 

 Museum contained a fine specimen, and I found another in the 

 collection at Valencia. I cannot find any mention of this spe- 

 cies in any of the Spanish catalogues of the birds of Andalucia 

 or Valencia, nor is it noticed by Brehm. 



Of the subject of the accompanying Plate (Plate V.), the 

 Tawny Eagle {Aquila ncsvioides), I find no mention in any work 

 on Spain to which I have been able to refer, nor did I meet with 

 it in any collection in that country ; but I am quite certain that 

 I have seen it several times in Andalucia — notably, near one of 

 the stations on the railway between Seville and Cadiz, and 

 again near Cordova, in April 1864. On the first occasion, an 

 Eagle rose from the railway embankment and settled in a tree 

 within forty yards of me, which Eagle, at first sight, puzzled me 

 considerably ; it was exactly in the plumage of the upper figure 

 in the Plate, which, so far as I am aware, does not belong to 

 any other Eagle, unless, perhaps, to Aquila heliaca. But this 

 bird was considerably smaller than that species, of which I saw 

 two on the same day in immature plumage ; nor, indeed, do I 

 recollect having seen a specimen of the Imperial Eagle so uni- 

 form in colouring. I made the acquaintance oi Aquila ncevioides 

 at Tunis, where it is frequent ; and I have, at the present time, 

 three of this species alive in my possession, from two of which 

 Mr. Wolf took the sketches for the Plate. The darker bird I 

 have had for nearly three years, and he or she (for I am igno- 

 rant of the sex) has altered very little in appearance during that 

 time, though the dark markings have, I think, somewhat in- 

 creased in breadth and number. The light-coloured specimen, 

 which I obtained last year, I consider to be an immature bird, 

 and, from its small size, it is, I think, a male. Mr. J. H. Gurney 

 informs me that he received two specimens of Aquila ncevioides 

 from Spain, which are now in the Norwich Museum ; and I have 

 no doubt that, though hitherto unnoticed, it is not uncommon 

 in the south of that country. It is found in the neighbourhood 

 of Tangier, and my three living birds were all said to have been 



