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have frequently seen it when travelling in those countries along the coast-roads. I frequently 

 obtained both birds' eggs from the neighbourhood of Danzig and Stettin ; and amongst skins 

 received from there I had one with an unusually white head. In Denmark it is said by Kjser- 

 bolling to be of not uncommon occurrence, especially during the winter season. In Belgium, De 

 Selys states, it is rare, occurring now and then on the Meuse and Scheldt ; but it is said to breed in 

 lofty rocks on the former river. Mr. Labouchere informs me that " it only visits Holland during 

 the winter, and is then chiefly found along the coast ; in severe winters, however, it has also been 

 shot further inland. A few years ago a relation of mine caught a fine specimen of this bird in a 

 Snipe-net on the dunes, and made a present of it to the Zoological Society of Amsterdam, in 

 whose gardens it is still living. Baron von Droste Hiilshoff says that young birds visit the 

 Island of Borkum regularly during the winter season, usually arriving about the middle of 

 October and leaving in April, the earliest date when he has met with it being the 10th of 

 October. It visits the coasts of France during winter, young specimens alone having, so far as 

 I can learn, been met with there. In Provence it remains throughout the winter, especially in 

 the Basse-Camargue, where in former years, when that district was more thinly inhabited, it is 

 said to have bred ; and it likewise occurs amongst the marshes near Perpignan, where a fine 

 adult bird was obtained not long ago. In Portugal it has also been met with ; and Dr. E. Rey 

 states (J. f. O. 1872, p. 141) that he saw one on the coast to the west of the Villa do Bispo. 

 In Spain it is said by Lord Lilford to be rare. He himself never saw it in that country ; but 

 Senor Graells met with it more than once in New Castile, and he heard of its being seen near 

 Valencia. Mr. Saunders, who also states that it is rare, says that he saw one specimen shot near 

 Cadiz in the winter season. Brehm did not observe it, and merely says that, " according to 

 Graells, it is occasionally seen on the shores of the Tajo and Jarama." Passing eastward, again, I 

 find that, according to Bailly, only young birds in the first or second year's plumage have been met 

 with in Savoy, and it is but rare. In the interior of Italy, and along the west coast also, this 

 species seems to be rare ; but on the shores of the Adriatic it is the commonest of the large Eagles. 

 In Sicily it is rather rare ; and although several undoubted specimens are on record, yet a Sicilian 

 species is still amongst the desiderata of the Museum at Palermo. Professor Doderlein relates 

 that a friend offered a large sum to a peasant of Carini who had just killed one, but he insisted 

 upon eating it. Salvadori states that he has seen an adult bird which was obtained in the interior 

 of the Island of Sardinia. Lord Lilford writes (Ibis, 1860, p. 5) that this Eagle is often to be seen, 

 though it is not abundant, in Epirus and Acarnania. A pair were almost always to be observed 

 about the Bay of Butrinto in the autumn and winter. His Lordship took a nest near Prevesa 

 on the 17th March, 1857. Lindermayer writes that it is rare in Greece; but Von der Miihle 

 records it as very common during the winter on the inland lakes, as for instance on Lake Zikeri, 

 five hours N.W. of Thebes. The latter gentleman states that it breeds in Rumelia ; and Dr. 

 Kruper informs me that he has met with it breeding in Acarnania and the Cyclades. In 

 Southern Germany it occurs here and there, and is said by Dr. Anton Fritsch to be found 

 regularly in Bohemia. Formerly it used to breed near Frauenberg. I saw it on the Danube, 

 and in 1866 climbed up to a nest in Wallachia, near Orsova, but was too late, as the young ones 

 had been taken out by some peasant lads, and I only found pieces of the egg-shells. Messrs. 

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