collection. Mr. C. A. Wright records, on the authority of Signor Schembri, one instance of its 

 occurrence on Malta ; but he himself never saw it there. 



In Greece and on the Ionian islands it is of not uncommon occurrence ; and Lord Lilford 

 writes that it is " not rare in winter on the coasts of Epirus. I have often observed it near 

 Butrinto, and on the 18th of January, 1857, picked up a very fine specimen, dying from wounds, 

 on the banks of the Butrinto river. A friend found another dead in the winter of 1858, in the 

 great marsh between Santa Quaranta and Delvino, in Epirus, about twenty miles north of Corfu. 

 The Corfu bird-preserver assured me that this species breeds in the precipices of San Salvador, 

 in the island of Corfu. I have seen an individual of this species seize and carry off a Golden- 

 eye (Anas clangula) which had been wounded a few minutes previously by one of our party 

 whilst woodcock-shooting near Butrinto. This is a much less wary species than Aquila chry- 

 saetos, and will often allow one to approach within gunshot when perched on a tree looking out 

 for wildfowl, which seem to form its principal food in Albania." 



Dr. Kruper, writing respecting its occurrence in Greece, states that " the natives give it the 

 same name as that used for the Golden Eagle (aeroc). How far it extends throughout Greece I 

 cannot say. It frequents the plains, not occurring in the mountains of Greece. As yet I know 

 only of two breeding-places, one near Dragmana, where the nest was on a huge plane tree, and 

 the second in the wood near the lake of Vrachori, in Akarnania." In both these nests, Dr. Kruper 

 continues, " numbers of Sparrows had built their nests in the interstices between the large boughs 

 forming the foundation of the nest. Some years previously Mr. Schrader took two young birds 

 out of the latter nest and reared them, feeding them on tortoises." 



In Southern Austria, Hungary, and the countries skirting the Danube it is by no means 

 very rare. The Bitter von Tschusi Schmidhofen informs me that " a pair nested on the Lobau, 

 near Vienna, in 1811, and both old and young birds were procured, and are now in the Vienna 

 Museum. Near Salzburg it is rare; one was obtained in the Lueg Pass in 1859. In Moravia 

 one is recorded by Heinrich as having been procured near Solkonitz in 1854, and another in 

 1856. Althammer speaks of it as a rare species in the Tyrol, and he knows but of two specimens 

 killed there. In Siebenburgen it is not rare, and in Hungary, in the Banat, neither rare nor 

 common. Zelebor obtained a female on the Zitter Militair-Grenze in May 1863, and two nest- 

 lings at Titel in 1853, all three of which are now in the Vienna Museum." 



I met with it in Lower Hungary, Servia, and Bulgaria, in some localities quite common ; but 

 although I found several nests, I was too early for the eggs. I persuaded a friend (Mr. C. 

 Farman), whose acquaintance I had made when travelling on the Danube, to take up ornithology ; 

 and he was afterwards successful in obtaining many eggs of this species as well as of other 

 Raptores, and published some excellent notes on the birds of prey of Bulgaria in 'The Ibis.' 

 He records this Eagle as by far the most common species in Central Bulgaria, where great 

 numbers breed. Messrs. Elwes and Buckley subsequently visited the same locality in Bulgaria 

 from which Mr. Farman obtained the eggs of this Eagle ; and I also transcribe below their notes 

 on its nidification. They record it as being "surprisingly common" throughout Macedonia and 

 Bulgaria, and essentially a frequenter of the plains. As regards its range in Russia, Mr. Sabanaeff 

 informs me that it is met with as far north as Ekaterinburg, where, according to M. Martin, it 

 has been met with breeding ; and M. Sabanaeff himself confirms this, as he found it breeding in 



