records six occurrences of the Spotted Eagle in our 

 Islands ; to these I can add one killed at Somerley, 

 Hants, on December 28, 1861, and three obtained in 

 the late autumn of 1891 in East Anglia. My Plates 

 are taken from two of these last three birds, the dark- 

 coloured one from a living specimen captured near 

 Colchester in October 1891 ; for the opportunity of 

 giving the portrait of this specimen from life, I am in- 

 debted to the courtesy of the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 



The bird represented in the other Plate was killed 

 near Wickham Market in November 1891, stuffed by 

 Messrs. Pratt, of Brighton, and very kindly lent to me 

 by its owner, Mr. J. J. Hornby, for the purposes of 

 this work ; this is one of the finest specimens of this 

 Eagle in the spotted stage of plumage that I have ever 

 seen, but a third specimen killed at Leigh Court, Essex, 

 early in November 1891, of which Mr. Thorburn was, 

 at my request, allowed to make a drawing, is very nearly 

 as beautiful. I became well acquainted with this species 

 during my constant shooting expeditions in Epirus and 

 Albania in 1856, 1857, and 1858. I believe that it 

 breeds in the former province, as it certainly does, or 

 did, in Acarnania, but I never found an occupied nest 

 near the coast. 



In the winter months we found this species very 

 abundantly, in fact it might fairly be called the Eagle of 

 Epirus, although by no means the only representative of 

 the genus Aquila therein. The favourite resorts of the 

 Spotted Eagle are marshy but well wooded plains, and 

 in my experience almost every clump of high trees on 

 our favourite shooting-grounds was tenanted by one or 



