PREFACKH 
THE SECOND EDITION. 
Tur preparation of a second edition of the History of 
our British Birds enables me to record the occurrence of 
eleven species new to Britain, which will be found arranged 
_in their places in these volumes ; I have also availed myself 
of several recent ornithological publications referring to the 
islands and shores of the Mediterranean, as well as to 
India, to include numerous localities in which some of our 
British Birds are either resident or seasonal visiters. 
The Srorren Kacir. Aquila nevia; vol. i. page 10.* 
From the lateness of the period, in reference to the 
printing of these volumes, at which the occurrence of two 
examples of this species in Ireland became known to me, 
I was only able to introduce a figure and a short notice 
on a single leaf in its place among the Eagles. The fur- 
ther particulars here inserted may prove acceptable. 
This Eagle, very similar in its appearance to our well- 
known Golden Eagle, but almost one-third smaller in size, 
inhabits the Apennines and other mountains of central 
Kurope. It is le petit Aigle ou Aigle tacheté of the Animal 
