1865, p. 61) says that he never met with it in Sardinia. Mr. C. A. Wright (Ibis, 1864, p. 45) 

 records it from Malta as " very rare, and not of annual occurrence. A fine specimen in my 

 collection was killed at Gozo at the end of August 1857;" and he refers (Ibis, 1870, p. 489) to 

 another specimen, a female, as having been obtained in November 1866. Lord Lilford observed 

 it in the island of Corfu ; and it is recorded from Greece by the various authors on the ornithology 

 of that country. Dr. Kriiper (J. f. O. 1862, p. 440) refers to it as only occurring in scattered 

 pairs. He first observed it in April 1860, near Dragmana, on Mount Parnassus, and afterwards 

 on Taygetos ; Von der Muhle refers to it as found on the damp plains, far from any woods ; and 

 Mr. H. Seebohm writes to me that, according to his experience, " it is one of the rarer Eagles, 

 both in Greece and Asia Minor. To both countries it is a summer visitor, arriving towards the 

 end of March. Though a small bird for an Eagle in the hand, it looks more important on the 

 wing, and may occasionally be seen sailing over the plains, though much less frequently than 

 the Vulture and larger Eagles. It is rarely seen at any great elevation on the mountains, 

 breeding in, or only just above, the vine- and olive-regions." 



In Southern Germany it occurs here and there, but is everywhere a rare bird. The Bitter 

 von Tschusi-Schmidhofen sends me the following notes on its distribution in the Austrian 

 dominions : — " In Bohemia, according to Palliardi, the forester Koch several times observed it in 

 the forest of Hardenberg, where it nested for several years in succession. After he had killed 

 the two old birds, no more were seen for long. Some years ago, however, one specimen was 

 shot in Bostock, near Prague. Eritsch says that Lokaj got an old and a young specimen in the 

 summer, and Osterdal shot one on the 16th September, 1864, in the Seminer district, near 

 Prelouc; and in 1853 a specimen was killed in Krammerburg, near Sayau. It seems, however, 

 not to be found in the Bohmerwald, as I have not seen it in the Museum of Wohrad. In 

 Moravia Mr. Schwab obtained only three specimens during thirty years. One of these was killed 

 in September 1853; it was an adult female, and was shot near Mistek, on a lake, and had grass- 

 hoppers and lizards in its stomach ; the second, a young male of the year, was obtained in 1858, 

 in a wood between some lakes; and the third specimen, a male, was killed in November 1854, 

 on the little rivulet of Holeschau. Dr. Schwab also obtained two specimens from the Neutil 

 district. According to Von Pelzeln there are two specimens in the Vienna Museum from Lower 

 Austria — a male from Hietzing, obtained in 1824, and a female, which was shot at Hirschgstem. 

 Finger refers to a pair in the Forest-School Collection at Mariabrunn, which were shot together 

 by a forester as they were fighting in the air for a snake ; and in Finger's own collection are : — 

 a male, shot in August 1848, at Wolkersdorf; a male, shot in 1849, at Schonbrunn; and a 

 female, shot at Schonkirchen on the 27th October, 1854, which last he presented to the Vienna 

 Museum. In Lower Austria it is very rare : one specimen is in the Kremsmunster Museum ; and 

 Finger records a male, shot at Ems in September 1854, and now in the Museum at St. Florian. 



" In the Tyrol, according to Althammer, it is rare in the northern districts ; but in Southern 

 Tyrol five or six are killed every autumn in August or September. Early in August a shepherd 

 obtained a young bird on Monte Baldo. According to Herr P. Gredler it is not rare on the 

 Mittelberg, near Bozen, and breeds in the Montikler forest. Bruhin states that one was shot in 

 June 1868 near Bludenz, in the Vorarlberg district. In Styria the late E. Seidensacher found 

 this Eagle breeding annually for several years in succession near Cilli ; and in Krain, according 



