11* FALCONID A. 
indebted to the kindness of Mr. Robert Davis, Jun., of 
Clonmel, who sent me also a coloured drawing made from 
the bird, and from which the representation here given 
was copied. 
‘“‘This specimen,” observes Mr. Davis, “‘ which is the 
property of my friend Samuel Moss of Youghal, county 
of Cork, was shot in the month of January of the present 
year, 1845, on the estate of the Earl of Shannon, and 
was at the time in a fallow field, devouring a rabbit. 
Another bird similarly marked, but reported to have been 
of a lighter shade of brown, was shot at the same place 
within a few days, but was unfortunately not preserved. 
Both had been noticed during the two previous months 
sweeping over the low grounds in the neighbourhood, 
which is near Youghal, and between Castle Martyr and 
Clay Castle. 
This Hagle, very similar in appearance to our well- 
known Golden Eagle, but almost one-third smaller in size, 
inhabits the Apennines and other mountains of central 
Kurope, occasionally diverging as far north as Russia and 
Siberia, and as far south as Egypt; its range to the east- 
ward from Europe extending as far in India as Nepal and 
Calcutta. It builds on high trees, laying two eggs of a 
light colour, slightly marked with red. The food is small 
quadrupeds and birds. 
From the late period, in reference to the printing of 
these volumes, at which the occurrence of this species be- 
came known to me, I can only here introduce it on a single 
leaf, and refer to figures for its appearance at different ages. 
The illustration here given represents the bird in its 
first year; Mr. Gould’s figure is from a bird in its second 
year; the figure in Werner’s Illustrations of M. Tem- 
minck’s Manual is from an adult bird. ) 
