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received from Mogador. Mr. Gurney states that the Eagle 

 procured by Captain Blakiston in the Crimea, upon whose 

 authority Dr. Bree has introduced Aquila ntevioides into his 

 'Birds of Europe^*, is, in fact, a specimen of Aquila navia; so 

 that the only recorded occurrence of this Eagle in Europe, 

 besides those mentioned above as received by Mr. Gurney from 

 Spain, is, so far as I know, to be found in the ' Revue et Magasin 

 de Zoologie' for 1854 (pp. 8 and 351) ; but in the same volume 

 (p. 160) it will be also found that the accuracy of the statement 

 referred to is disputed, and the supposed two specimens of 

 Aquila ncevioides are made out to belong to another species. 

 My birds are remarkably tame, and live in amity with each 

 other, and with a|^fine adult Bonelli's Eagle {Aquila honellii), 

 which 1 have kept alive for nearly five years. This last-named 

 Eagle is common in Andalucia, where it fi'equents the marshes, 

 as observed in Epirusf and Sardinia. The Seville Museum 

 contains several specimens ; and it is mentioned by Brehm as 

 observed in the provinces of Valencia, Marcia, Granada, and 

 Madrid. I was informed that one of the specimens which I 

 saw stufi'ed at Seville was caught upon its nest in a pine=tree, 

 not far from that city ; but on my inquiring what had become 

 of the eggs, the usual "quien sabe t" was all the answer I could 

 obtain. 



Bonelli's Eagle is almost always to be found in pairs, and has 

 a very different flight from that of any other European Eagle ; 

 it is known in Andalucia as Perdicero and Aguila blanca, which 

 last appellation is indeed given to many other species, and parti- 

 cularly to the Booted Eagle {Aquila pennata), which is very com- 

 mon near Seville, and is, I believe, found in most parts of Spain : 

 the Museums of Madrid, Granada, Seville, and Valencia con- 

 tain many specimens. Senor Graells informed me that the 

 Booted Eagle breeds in May, in the neighbourhood of Madrid, 

 and usually places its nest on a poplar ; in the country round 

 Seville it builds in the Pinares or pine-groves, and is reported 

 to lay only two eggs, of a dirty-white colour with indistinct 

 rufous markings. This information was given me by a sports- 

 man of Seville, who said he had often seen the nest and eggs of 

 * Ibis, 1859, p. 88. t Ibis, 1860, p. 5. 



