APPENDIX. 



Order RAPTOKES. 



Spotted Eagle, vol. i. p. 13. 



July 1850. I received the following additional information from 

 Mr. G. Jackson (gamekeeper to the Earl of Bantry), of whose correct- 

 ness as to the species I have no doubt. His statement is : — " Last 

 year (1849),, a very young- bird was brought to me, by a country-boy, for 

 sale, which I, not having then heard of the spotted eagle, thought was a 

 young golden one. I declined buying it, but the bird was purchased 

 by tlie innkeeper at Glengarriif. As it became older, and the plumage 

 more mature, I saw that it was not the golden eagle ; it was a beautiful 

 bird, but not much more than half the size of that species. The 

 description of the spotted eagle in your work is perfectly ap]:)licalile 

 to it. Before 1 knew this, it was sold to a tourist for j63 ; the bird 

 was bred in one of the mountains here [Cork], called Hungry Hill." 



In a letter which I had from Dr. Harvey, of Cork, dated February 

 16, 1850, he mentions that the Messrs. Parker have lately seen about 

 their residence in the neighbourhood of that city, " a small eagle, with 

 yellow bands on his wings," which they believe to be A. ncevla. The 

 series of spots on tlie wings of this species would probably have a 

 banded appearance. 



Dmivegan Castle, Skye, October 1850. It is not improbable that the 

 spotted eagle has occurred in this island. On my questioning Mr. 

 Pack (who has been resident here for fourteen years, and eleven of them 

 as gamekeeper) respecting the birds of Skye, he described a spotted 

 eagle — though he had never heard of a species being so called — having 

 been killed by one of the shepherds of the late Mr. Macleod, of 

 Orbost, about the year 18-10. Soon afterwards, he himself saw 

 another, and subsequently, within a short time, cither a second bird 

 or the same individual again. The size he does not accurately remem- 

 ber, though he recollects that it was liker to the golden than the sea 



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